CHANDLER-GILBERT COMMUNITY COLLEGE
EMPLOYEE DEVELOPMENT TEAM
December 10, 2007  2:00 to 3:00 pm, B111
  
Present: Margie Mesanko, Sandi Lien, Carol Crane, Trina Larson, Sherri Basha, Diane
Yost
Special Guests: President Maria Hesse and Pam Davenport

Review of Minutes: Unable to approve the minutes; will review and approve via email.
Action Items: No action items to be reviewed.  

1)Reviewed and discussed Spring, 2008 EOLT course offerings.  It was explained that
when the courses were being considered for the spring schedule, consideration was
given to survey results and course requests received by EOLT from CGCC employees.
It was noted that MOSAIC was not on the schedule.  President Hesse confirmed her desire
to continue the MOSAIC series at CGCC.  Margie will investigate the possibility of
arranging the courses at CGCC this spring.

The legal course, Risk Assessment/Supplemental which was requested was not on the
spring schedule.  It was explained that it is going to be offered district wide as
part of the new initiatives.

The EDT assignments for CGCC Spring course offerings are as follows:

02/08/08  Communications Skills Boot Camps  1:30 to 4:00 p.m.  Sandi Lien (SC103)
03/28/08  Meet On Common Ground  11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  Brent Bartel (ATC136)
04/09/08  Risk Assessment Tools  8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.  Carol Crane (B172)
05/14/08  7 Habits of Highly Effective People  8:00 to 5:00 p.m.  Brent Bartel (L226)
05/21/08  7 Habits of Highly Effective People (cont)  8:00 to 5:00 p.m.  Brent Bartel
(L226)
05/28/08  7 Habits of Highly Effective People (cont)  8:00 to 5:00 p.m.  Brent Bartel
(L226)
06/05/08  Large Passenger Van Training  8:00 to 11:00 a.m.  District Personnel (B172)

Room requests have been placed for these courses.  Confirmed rooms will be posted
in upcoming Minutes.

The issue of providing the continuation of cookies and water for the courses was discussed.
It was decided that we will continue to offer water, but will replace the cookies
with candies instead. 

2) Carol Crane reported that there is a possibility that the  pumpkins for the CGCC
Fall Festival could be donated again next year from Food City.

3) President Hesse and Pam Davenport were in attendance to discuss the Renewal and
Reflection Initiative.

President Hesse explained that this initiative was to benefit our college culture
and to try and maintain the core values, integrity and ethics as the college expands
and grows the employee workforce.  President noted that she did not want employees
to grow apart and disconnect as the college  grow.  President would like to keep CGCC
as a friendly place, where people enjoy coming to work.  The Renewal and Reflection
is a regular activity to remind people of that.  She discussed her recent visit to
Richland College in Dallas that has an outstanding reputation of employee collaboration
and success.  One of Richlands core values is joy.

Pam Davenport discussed how she conducts the workshops and engaged the EDT in an exercise
to demonstrate how the reflection and renewal works.  

President Hesse and Pam Davenport would like EDT to help with suggestions as to how
to approach employees, promote the workshops and grow participation for this initiative.
They also would like to brainstorm with the committee  for ideas; perhaps change the
name of the workshops to more adequately reflect the meaning of this course and thereby
attract more participants.  Pam invited the EDT to attend her next workshop on Friday,
January 4, 2008 from 10-12p.m., with lunch being offered afterwards.

End of Meeting.

NEXT MEETING:  1/14/08 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. in B111