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About Bob Pike (trainer)
- Bob Pike, full name Robert William Pike (born April 22, 1947), is the founder, chairman and CEO of The Bob Pike Group in Minneapolis.
- He is known as “the trainer’s trainer” and specializes in training those who train others.
- Pike originated the idea of participant-centered training where instructors facilitate learning through the use of hands-on, interactive lessons.
- He has been involved in training since 1969 and has authored and co-authored 29 books, including The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, now in its third edition.
- The Creative Training Techniques Handbook has sold more than 285,000 copies since its first printing in 1989.
- According to publisher Bob Carkhuff at HRD Press, which publishes The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, Carkhuff estimated the third edition has sold about 50,000 copies.
- In an email, Pike said original publisher Lakewood, now defunct, had paid him royalties based on 140,000 books sold for the first edition and 95,000 for the second edition.
- His most recent book is The Fun Minute Manager (May 2009), which is co-authored with Robert C.
- Ford and John Newstrom.
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