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== Group Brainstorming - or Nota Bad Idea? ==
''A Teampedia review by jz of ''
What have ''your'' experiences been with group brainstorming? Is it successful for your team? Have you found ways to make group brainstorming worthwhile?
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== Team Globally, Bond Locally ==
Each year since 2008, approximately xx employees of Google help serve their communities across over 400 different projects as part of GoogleServe, an employee-driven initiative organized almost entirely by volunteers. Through partnerships with nonprofits, schools and local governments, Googlers from 119 cities in 36 countries help communities in need with projects ranging from educating youth about online bullying to cleaning up local rivers and parks.
"Giving back to our communities strengthens our connections with the places in which we live and work. And it also brings us closer together as a global team," says Seth Marbin, GoogleServe Global Director [Marbin is also the founder and lead of Teampedia]. Each year the event has grown in size and scope.
Examples of GoogleServe projects:
In New York, Googlers led resume writing workshops and provided career coaching to Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America members seeking employment.
Googlers helped Mountaineering Ireland construct drains in order to maintain a stretch of trail along the Dublin Mountains Way.
Googlers facilitated a strategic planning session for staff from the Post Prison Education Program in Seattle.
Googlers conducted an online tools workshop for NGOs in Singapore with the National Volunteer and Philanthropy Centre.
Googlers fixed up bikes with Free Ride in Pittsburgh; the bikes were donated to local nonprofits and residents.
At the Punjabi Bagh Central Market area in West Delhi, Googlers cleaned and removed old, decayed posters with the help of “Lets do it Delhi,” an organization which has taken up the initiative to minimize abuse of public property.
GoogleServe is coordinated by a core team . . . Positions include . . . Tasks include . .. Employees are inivited, but not required, to volunteer for projects of their choice . . each team . . . Google provides transportation, meals, equipment for the volunteers . . considered part of their work (not vacation time) . .
one time a year / ongoing
Comments by volunteers - "We enjoy Google parties and Google retreats at Disneyland and xx, but GoogleServe is the strongest experience for helping us get to know each other and xx - after a team volunteering effort, I xxx" says xxx . .
GoogleServe has lead to, inspired, xxx
add 3 Googleserve photos . . .
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