The Bob Pike Group has provided train the trainer workshops and consulting services to individuals and corporations for more than 30 years. Clients have been applying Bob's Participant-Centered Instructional System to build their learning organizations, to strengthen retention and to enrich desired results.
This comprehensive Instructional System complete with design, delivery, and class management components is now being applied to performance-based outcomes to strengthen the business relationship between the training department and the company's business objectives.
In addition to Bob Pike, a team of senior consultants, personally selected by Bob Pike, with experience in a variety of industries and enterprises have been certified by Bob in his systems and process. These consultants travel nationally and internationally conducting customized in-house training programs and consulting services with clients.
What is the Participant-Centered Methodology?
Since 1979, Bob's efforts, and those of his senior training consultants, have focused on creating a participant-centered training approach to replace the usual lecture-based training approach. Our participant-centered training uses group interaction over 80 percent of the time. Typically, most training sessions use a lecture-based teaching approach for 80-90 percent of the content and one or two group activities to change the pace.
The key focus in our participant-centered training approach is to assist participants in developing their own answers, applying tools and techniques, using reference materials, and tapping their own resources (as well as those of their colleagues) to reach solutions that work in the training session as well as on the job. By using the structure of small groups and interactive training sessions, participants are given experiences that make it possible for them to apply the content back on the job, when the trainer isn't readily available to solve every problem or answer every question.
In our participant-centered training, we provide a supportive environment for participant exploration, struggle, and discovery, so the insights they gain will truly be theirs, as well as the self-confidence that comes from those discoveries.
This is what's at the core of participant-centered training. The key results of this training approach are:
Enthusiastic participants!
Dramatically increased training transfer to the job
Greatly improved learner retention
More information presented in less time
An accelerated learning environment
An exceptionally well-trained, effective workforce
Participant buy-in...even from the difficult participant
In participant-centered training, the learning shifts to the participant. Instead of the trainer feeling totally responsible for the learning taking place, the shift is to the participants taking responsibility--and not just for their creativity and experience, but to create action plans for using any new skills or content.
It follows, we as trainers, have to appreciate what people bring to a training session and set up ownership situations where participants' concerns, expertise, questions, and ideas surface. We can't do that in a lecture setting. So participant-based learning depends upon the dynamics of the group where people talking to people come up with dynamic, creative ideas and solutions to their problems.
Since 1979, we've developed hundreds of new techniques and competency areas for participant-centered learning. When trainers leave our sessions, they have a step-by-step process to develop a participant-centered training approach.
Our basic philosophy of business is to help organizations achieve results through people. We have worked with over 75,000 corporate trainers to advocate our very successful participant-centered learning approach. For us, success is measured by increased retention and actual transfer of skills to the job. People must be more effective after the training than before the training.
In all we do at The Bob Pike Group, you might say we want to put into practice what Confucius knew back in 451 B.C. when he observed: "What I hear, I forget; what I see, I remember; but what I do I understand."
We want all our participants to hear, see, and remember, but most of all, we want our participants to do, know, and understand. The bottom line is more effective training which greatly improves learner’s retention and content transfer. Your end-result is a more valuable and efficient workforce.
Through our seminars, customized in-house programs, conferences, keynote presentations, and product catalog, our company vision is to provide training leadership by applying participant centered advances to life-long learning and teaching--to increase learners' performance and enable organizations to achieve their goals. It is Bob's passion and goal to share this powerful approach with all trainers to forever change the way we train and to create a more vital and effective workforce. If you would like to discuss any training or consulting topic in more detail or you would like more information on The Bob Pike Group's comprehensive system of performance solutions, please fill out the form below or call us at 1-800-383-9210 and ask for one of our Client Solution Directors. We would like to assist you in your on-going personal and professional development goals for your organization.
