A conference titled "New Learning Strategies" featuring US author Bob Pike will be held in Bahrain next month.

Organised by Bahrain-based SMR Gulf in partnership with Bahrain Society for Training and Development (BSTD) and the Origin Consulting Group, the event is supported by Tamkeen.

Labour Minister Jameel Humaidan is the chief patron of the event, scheduled to take place on October 7 and 8.

Bob is the founder and chairman of The Bob Pike Group and Creative Training Techniques Press.

He developed and implemented training programmes for business, industry, government, and the professions since 1969.

Pike has presented at regional and national ASTD and training conferences to participants ranging from 300 to 3,000 people.

He is author of The Creative Training Techniques Handbook, the best-selling train-the-trainer book ever published with more than 300,000 copies in print, and co-author of One-on-One Training, Dealing with Difficult Participants, 50 Creative Training Openers, 50 Creative Training Closers, along with more than twenty other books and a dozen videos.

In 2007, he was voted one of the 20 most influential training professionals by Training Industry and received ISA's prestigious Thought Leader Award.-TradeArabia News Service