General Physics Corporation and Baker Communications Form Partnership to Provide Global Sales Training Programs

Elkridge, MD. - Global performance improvement solutions provider General Physics Corporation (GP), a subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX), announced today that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Baker Communications, a leading provider of corporate training in the U.S., headquartered in Houston, Texas. This partnership will provide the following consulting and training services globally: strategic sales and channels optimization, sales training, management training, sales management training, negotiation training, time management, customer service and presentation training.

Daniel J. Miller, Senior Vice President of GP’s Custom Sales Solutions group, stated, “GP believes in creating holistic learning strategies that engage both sales professionals and customers and create advocates for our Client’s products and services. The addition of Baker Communications world class sales training programs will enhance our turn-key solutions to better serve our clients’ sales training needs.”

Walter Rogers, President and CEO of Baker Communications stated “We have been working closely with GP for several years, and this announcement formalizes our already successful partnership supporting our corporate clients. By tightly integrating our sales effectiveness offerings we will help our clients flourish even in the context of today’s challenging economy”

 

About Baker Communications 

Baker Communications deploys Performance Improvement Systems that ignite and sustain growth. As one of the fastest growing Performance Improvement companies in the world, Baker Communications delivers innovative products and services that ignite productivity in eight core business areas, including Sales, Marketing, CRM, Negotiations, Presentations, Management, Customer Service, and Time Management. Over 1,000 corporations per year, including 50% of the Fortune 500, leverage Baker Communications to improve the performance of their business critical functions. Our employees and certified partners are distributed across the Americas, EMEA, Russia and Asia, enabling us to deliver value in multiple geographies, languages and cultures. Baker Communications’ Coaching in the Cloud™ ignites individual, team and organizational improvement and growth delivered completely in the cloud for average ROIs of more than 20:1. We have been recognized by Trainingindustry.com as one of the world’s “Top 10 Sales Force Automation Training Companies” and “Top 20 Sales Methodology Companies.” Baker CEO Walter Rogers can be heard every Sunday afternoon on CBS Radio as an anchor co-host discussing Sales and Service Excellence.

 

About GP

GP is the principal operating subsidiary of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE: GPX). GP is a global performance improvement solutions provider of sales and technical training, e-Learning solutions, management consulting and engineering services. GP’s solutions improve the effectiveness of organizations by delivering innovative and superior training, consulting and business improvement services, customized to meet the specific needs of its clients. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing, process and energy industries, and other commercial and government customers.
Additional information may be found at www.gpworldwide.com.

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