Employee Engagement Ideas for Your Strategic Planning Process
Business planning is vital for the success of your organization-no matter how many employees you have. And you don't have to do it alone. In fact, you shouldn't. Employee engagement in the strategic planning process is the best way to gain enthusiastic buy-in and support.

Do you want to get clear, get organized, get going, and get results as quickly as possible? If that's what you're looking for, then Energize Your Business is for you.

A strategic planning process done well...
- is an engaging, inspiring and fun opportunity to create collaboration and cooperation among all employees
- creates alignment from the top of the organization to the frontline-getting everyone moving in the same direction toward the same vision and goals
- attracts the right and perfect employees and customers, people who resonate with your organization's culture and aspirations
- energizes and lifts your organization and everyone in it to the next level of success and fulfillment!

Throughout Energize, the author shares his facilitation skills, secrets and proven, practical tools and tips accumulated over his 25 years of experience facilitating groups. You will read stories and examples of successful companies who have implemented the very principles and processes discussed in this book.

The book is a handy facilitator guide for anyone embarking upon a strategic planning process for their business.

After reading this book, you will view strategic planning in a new light-as one of the best ways to truly engage your employees in the success of your organization. You'll see just how easy, fun, and inspiring the process can be for everyone involved.

Here's what Ray's clients are saying about his facilitation skills and processes:

"This book will provide you with a jumping off point and a kick-in-the-pants to get energized and take action to make your own organization better. Ray is a great facilitator, trainer, and coach who has helped our leadership team move forward together with a common understanding, direction, and focus of what we want to achieve as an organization. Ray has provided us with many valuable tools to make us a better organization and better people both inside and outside our agency."
Leo Huppert, Contract Manager,
Arizona Cooperative Therapies

"The Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community worked with Ray on 10 different occasions, at various levels of the organization in strategic planning and teambuilding. Ray's facilitation style and approach works very well for us. I recommend Ray for any organization that embarks on the Strategic Planning journey."
Bryan D. Meyers, Community Manager,
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

"It is with great enthusiasm that I highly recommend Ray to any business interested in facilitation, strategic planning, or leadership coaching. Ray served as the facilitator for the Gilbert Chamber of Commerce Annual Board Retreat and did a tremendous job of keeping our group focused and action-oriented. We had a limited amount of time to prioritize an action plan and build consensus. I'm pleased to say we were able to accomplish this with Ray's expertise and skills to draw on the strengths of the group."
Kathy Tilque, President/CEO,
Gilbert Chamber of Commerce

"Ray is a talented writer who truly believes in his writing and practices that every day through his work. He is a genuine person who wants to make this world a better place."
Jerry Simmons, Managing Partner,
INDI Group
About the Author: Ray Madaghiele is the Chief Inspiration Officer and Master Facilitator of Business Energizers, a division of the Transformational Learning Center (TLC), an organizational and human excellence company, whose purpose is to inspire hope and awaken greatness in individuals, organizations, and communities. Ray has more than 25 years' experience facilitating, training, speaking and coaching in organizations and communities across the United States. His engaging processes and proven principles inspire people to "get clear, get organized, get going, and get results." Some of his clients include engineering companies, utilities, municipalities, airports, land developers, construction companies, and Native American communities and their enterprises. He guides leaders to create an energized, fulfilling environment where individuals and teams grow and thrive. Ray's facilitation specialties include strategic planning, leadership retreats, community visioning, problem solving, and employee engagement focus groups. His engaging and interactive facilitative style draws out and captures participants' best ideas in a remarkably short period of time. His customized training and speaking specialties focus on leadership, teambuilding, strategic planning, goal setting, customer service, creative problem solving, effective communications, human relations, project management, and time management. His leadership success coaching assists leaders to accelerate the implementation of facilitation and training outcomes in their organizations and in their personal and professional lives. Ray now serves his business clients' needs flexibly and economically while he and his wife, Lyn, RV across North America living their dreams-and inspiring others to live their dreams also.