Wood Group, a major international energy services company, has asked that Baker Communications deliver several customized training workshops for various segments of the company. Company representatives had previously attended a Baker open-enrollment workshop and subsequently requested customized training content focusing on front-line management leadership skills. Baker designed and piloted their Front Line Leadership Training seminar for select Wood Group management teams. The company was so pleased with the workshop that it is now being rolled out to all front-line managers, and Wood Group also requested additional Finance for Non-Financial Managers training. The company also had a training need among their purchasing teams, and Baker customized a negotiations training seminar to target the specific needs of those working with suppliers. Baker will also be providing management training for graduate students participating in Wood Group’s rotation program. In Baker, Wood Group found a responsive, flexible, client-oriented training partner with the patience to obtain a deep understanding of the company’s needs, the capability and willingness to customize its high-quality training content to match those specific needs, and a global reach that mitigated the necessity of additional travel fees for delivery of international sessions.

A Wood Group Vice-President wrote: “I wanted to thank you and all involved at Baker Communications for the excellent training you presented… I have had strong positive feedback from it, and this probably puts it at the top of the ratings list regarding training we have put on in the past couple of years.”

Senior Level Baker Communications Instructors and Negotiations, Leadership and Finance Experts will deliver the custom workshops to Wood Group staff in Houston, Oklahoma City, and Aberdeen, Scotland. Managers participating in the Front-Line Leadership and Finance for Non-Financial Managers training sessions will learn and practice key leadership skills such as delegation and performance evaluation, which will lead to better planning, improved feedback, and more efficient and productive departments. Managers will also gain a basic understanding of corporate financial structure and how to read essential financial reports, enhancing their big-picture understanding of the company’s functioning and their own roles within it. Purchasing staff attending the Negotiation Skills for Purchasing workshop will learn and practice key negotiations skills such as recognizing and neutralizing negotiation tactics, de-escalating conflict, and identifying and applying concession strategies, to help ensure that their negotiations are well planned, conflict-free and result in satisfactory outcomes for both parties.

About Baker Communications

Baker Communications is one of the fastest growing Performance Improvement companies in the United States, providing training products and services to improve productivity in seven core areas: Sales and Marketing, CRM, Management, Negotiations, Presentations, Customer Service, and Time Management. Baker serves over 1,000 corporate clients per year, including 50% of the Fortune 500.

Over the last 30 years, Baker Communications products and services have been implemented on six continents and in over 25 countries. Staff and certified partners are distributed across the Americas, EMEA, Russia and Asia. Baker Communications was recently recognized as one of the world’s top 10 sales force automation training companies by TrainingIndustry.com. Baker CEO Walter Rogers can be heard every Wednesday morning from 11:40 to 11:55 on CNN Radio 650 (www.CNN650.com) as an anchor panelist for the popular show The Price of Business.

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About Wood Group

Wood Group is an international energy services company with around $5.0 billion in sales, employing more than 28,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries.

The Group has three businesses - Engineering & Production Facilities, Well Support and Gas Turbine Services - providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

Wood Group is among the global market leaders in:

• deepwater engineering
• offshore pipelines
• artificial lift using electric submersible pumps
• enhancement of oil & gas production in mature fields
• the repair and overhaul of industrial gas turbines.

www.woodgroup.com/