Roundtable Series: Leveraging Community Activities for Team Building March 28, 2007 STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.

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Our Mission To engage high growth companies in corporate citizenship and philanthropic efforts so that new and leveraged resources are generated for community benefit. Our Work Entrepreneurs Foundation (EF) works with emerging companies to create, manage and implement corporate foundations and community benefit programs. Our Vision Silicon Valley will be considered a leading community, not just for our innovations but also for our corporate commitment to the broader community. About Entrepreneurs Foundation STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.

Roundtable Goals Why EF Conducts Roundtables To generate ideas for how to expand companies’ community involvement (CI) programs. To identify other resources available in the community to help expand companies’ CI programs. To build on the EF network of companies as a learning community to share best practices and lessons learned. Goals of This Roundtable To learn the basics of team building and how it can be more purposefully built into the design of a CI activity. To identify the inherent benefits of CI activities to team building. To determine the success factors of team building in CI activities and how to measure them.

STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES. Agenda 9:30Introductions 9:40Team Building :00Synopsys Case Study 10:20Break Out into Small Group Discussions 11:00Roll Up Discussions 11:20Announcements and Handouts 11:25Wrap up and Evaluation 11:30Adjourn

Presenters Rita Graziano, Principle, Focused Solutions Group Rita Graziano is a Senior Training & Development professional with over 25 years experience in the Silicon Valley. Her career has included several Director of Learning positions in High Tech companies, as well as many years as a successful Independent Consultant to companies in a myriad of industries, such as Manufacturing, Consumer Products, Biotechnology, US Military, Automobile and Retail Clothing Industries, along side her extensive High Tech experience. Major companies with whom Rita has worked closely include eBay, Packard Bell-NEC, Intel, The Clorox Company, Sprint, New United Motors, Cargill, Apple Computer, PG&E, Ross Stores and many others. Rita’s OD training includes NTL programs, and a certification in Facilitation from Interaction Associates. She holds an MA in Counseling from Santa Clara University and has done Doctorate work in Human and Organization Systems with The Fielding Institute. She has served as t-group facilitator for the Stanford University Graduate School of Business MBA program. She was Vice President for Programs, American Society for Training and Development Silicon Valley Chapter, and 2006 president of ASTD Silicon Valley. Theo Olson, Community Relations Program Manager, Synopsys, Inc Theo Olson manages the Synopsys Shares programs at Synopsys, Inc., including matching gift, community involvement, computer donation, and employee giving drives. He joined Synopsys in With over 25 years of volunteer management experience, he brings a depth of knowledge and practical techniques to encourage employees to make a positive impact in their local communities. He is frequently asked to speak on the topic of volunteerism, most recently on the Entrepreneurs Foundation Corporate Citizenship Seminar panel on Matching Gift programs in 2006 and the Highlights of the Employee Involvement Season in Theo served as the Chairman of the Leadership Mountain View Council from He holds a B.A. in Religion from Luther College in Decorah, IA. STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.

Small Group Discussion, Guiding Questions Now that you have a better sense of what team building is, what are examples of ways your community activities provided team building? How did you know when team building occured? What are examples of activities you feel did NOT promote team building? Why not? What are ideas you have for how to more purposefully include team building into your community involvement activities? What are your next steps? What are challenges to incorporating team building more purposefully in your CI activities? What are ideas to overcome these challenges? What are some other best practices and lessons learned about incorporating team building into your CI activities?

Additional Resources Books Teamwork and Teamplay: Games and Activities for Building and Training Teams (Paperback) Successful Team Building Tools, edited by Elaine Biech The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni The Big Book of Team Building Games by Newstrom & Scannell Team Building Activities for Every Group by Alanna Jones Quick Team-Building Activities for Busy Managers by Brian Cole Miller Organizations South Bay Organization Development Network Bay Area Organization Development Network Catalogues/Publishers Pfeiffer Consulting Psychologists Press Crisp Publications Articles EFCommunity1 Listserv An -based forum to share best practices and lessons learned with Bay Area colleagues from companies working to strengthen their corporate citizenship programs. To subscribe, send an to STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.

Joni Podolsky Director, Community Programs Jeff Rangel Director, Community Programs STRONGER COMPANIES. STRONGER COMMUNITIES.