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If you're like hundreds of others we've talked to, the answers to these questions are:

· None were transformational.

· None created dramatically different results.

· I don't remember any key points – and therefore probably didn't act on them.

All of that is about to change. And it will change the moment you raise your hand and say, “I want to be on The Pike Ascent!”

Why? We'll help you close not only the gap between knowing and not knowing – but also the gap between knowing and doing. This is our 15th conference, but the first called The Pike Ascent. We changed the name because it's dramatically different than anything else we've ever done. When the gap is closed you will be able to finally see how to transform your organization.

We've closed our own gap between knowing and doing. We're applying everything we've known for years to this event – big time. Imagine an event where people are excited that you're there, you know your purpose, and you attend sessions with a passion – because we will be assisting you in designing your experience to maximize your own results. That's what you can expect at The Pike Ascent.

The First 50% of Success

We've known for years that, just as in mountain climbing, preparation accounts for 50% of the ascent's success. But for 90% or more of conferences you've attended, there is no preparation – you just register and show up. Not when you join The Pike Ascent. As soon as we receive your registration a special package will be sent to you. This package contains the details for your exciting/informative/fun/easy preparation process for The Pike Ascent.

Assessment

You'll complete a brief, but telling, in-depth assessment that will help you ruthlessly examine and question every key process, every activity, every single thing you do in your training and performance improvement activities. You'll develop a crystal clear picture not only of where you are but of where you want to be now.

You'll receive an assessment debriefing by a member of our professional staff to help you create your own game plan for The Pike Ascent. We know (and you do, too, don't you?) that the most important transfer strategies to ensure results happen before any training takes place. From the 155 different strategies we will be unleashing, you'll experience the ones that are most important to you and your organization.

Flip Video Assignments         In your package will also be a Flip Video with instructions for your first brief learning video assignment. In the weeks leading up to The Pike Ascent, you'll be completing other video assignments using this ingenious video camera to upload your videos to our special “Ascent Participants Only” Web 2.0 community.

Networking Community

You and the other “climbers” will create profiles, upload video assignments, ask questions, create content that will enrich your experience with The Pike Ascent – and multiply your results. The most prolific trainers in the world are the ones that ask a lot of questions!

You'll also go to a website that not only clearly maps The Pike Ascent for you – it will provide dozens of podcasts and short teleseminars to help you better select your own personal path for The Pike Ascent (and you'll be able to attend the teleseminars live at no extra charge the minute we receive your registration)!

In short, you will come to the conference better prepared, more clearly focused, and with a crystal clear sense of purpose. You will be ready for The Pike Ascent – like no other conference before. (And by the way, you'll also apply all of this to your own everyday performance improvement efforts immediately!)

The Next 25%

The next 25% of your success, and the “closing of the loop,” occurs at The Pike Ascent itself. Every session will be totally interactive, beginning with the pre-Ascent programs and continuing through the closing general session. You'll be constantly creating your own personal plan of action that you'll implement after The Pike Ascent is over. You'll select 3-5 other participants to join you in an accountability/support group for 90 days following The Pike Ascent. You'll be documenting the real value of what you've applied in ways that will make others in your organization – especially management – sit up and take notice.

And while you're in Minneapolis you'll continue video assignments with your Flip Video and continually create new content on The Pike Ascent web 2.0 community. We've assembled a transformational team of professionals to challenge every thought, every action, and everything you think you know about training. Imagine this entire team driving down the new ideas, concepts and action steps to transform the nature in how you design and deliver training. Our goal is for you to walk away from this event with a new “set of glasses” so you may return to your organization and truly make that difference.

Transformational Leaders

And the team of professionals we've assembled for The Pike Ascent will absolutely blow you away. Imagine Ken Blanchard up close and personal! This event is restricted to just 400 attendees – and Ken spends most of his time in front of audiences numbering in the thousands. You'll complete The Pike Ascent with incredible content, an implementation plan, and very concrete ways to measure and celebrate your results!

	Bob Pike and The Bob Pike Group Trainers, author of 30+ books on training, will lead this transformation before, during and after The Pike Ascent. Bob will share his views on the current trends and how to advance past current standards to survive in this century.
	Ken Blanchard, best-selling co-author of The One Minute Manager and The One Minute Apology, will begin the Ascent with How to Lead to the Next Level–Creating the New High Performing Organizations. Margie Blanchard, Linda Miller and Lynn McCreery will lead Pre-Ascent and Ascent sessions.
	Marilyn Corrigan, national training speaker and expert, will push you into the critical zone of generational and motivational challenges, as we learn to bring younger people (with unique needs and requirements) into enhancing overall team-building and organizational performance.
	Mike Rayburn's comical, classic guitar will use humorous entertainment to highlight the role of fun, participation and balance in creating the new organizations and people that get results. After all, it's not all about work.

The Final 25%

The final 25% of your success comes in the weeks and months following The Pike Ascent as you roll out your implementation knowing that you have incredible resources surrounding you to ensure your success. The Pike Ascent is not an end – it is a beginning.

2 For 1

And to top it all of you get a two for one registration to the Post Ascent event to be held in March. This will be an incredible opportunity to celebrate your success, measure your results in very tangible ways – and gather the tools needed for the next stage of your climb. So read on – make your choices – and join us on The Pike Ascent – while there's still space available!