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Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Bob Pike Group
Founder and CEO of Creative Training Techniques International, Inc.
Tucson, Arizona
Pike, known as the "trainer's trainer," has been developing programs for government entities and businesses since 1969. Pike and his staff offer both public and in-house seminars and workshops, including a train-the-trainer boot camp and research-based creative teaching techniques course. He also is the author of The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, and co-author of several books, including Dealing with Difficult Participants and One-on-One Training.
Q | HOW DID YOU GET INTERESTED IN BECOMING A TRAINING CONSULTANT?
For my first full-time job, I was a pastor at a church. I also did engineering drawings on die side, but I was $350 a month in debt. I started working with a college friend who was selling sales training and management development programs. In my first six months, I made $150. 11 realized tiiat I was so afraid of rejection, tiiat avoiding rejection became a bigger goal for me than making sales.
In 1967,1 read Maxwell Maltz's book Psycho-Cybernetics, which said that it takes 30 days to replace one attitude...