Become a Bodyguard – EP Training in Florida

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Become A Bodyguard- ESS Global Corp, provides D.O.E approved Executive Protection Training in Tampa, and throughout the US as needed.

Become a bodyguard - An ESS Graduate Protecting Taylor Swift
An ESS Graduate Protecting Taylor Swift

How Do You Become a Bodyguard?

First, you should read the ESS Executive Protection Training Guide. This gives you an overview of the qualities and traits of an EP agent, what to look for when choosing a class, as well as detaining job opportunities.
If you cannot get yourself to the Tampa area, ESS Global Corp occasionally brings our top-rated Executive Protection Training to Orlando, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, Raleigh and more.

How Do You Become a Bodyguard? – Be Serious About It.

The ESS Difference is clear.

  • D.O.E. licensed and approved. 
  • Top protection professional trainers
  • A full suite of top-rated trainings

At ESS Global Corporation, our top-rated D.O.E. Approved Executive Protection Certification Course is a great place to get started in the Executive Protection Industry. ESS Global also offers an Advanced Executive Protection Course as well as courses covering;

The ESS Global Executive Protection Training classes are the industry’s gold standard. The experienced instructors at ESS Global Corp know exactly what you need to learn quickly, and they work with you to develop the skills you’ll need to be an effective executive protection agent. At ESS, our primary goal is to pass down our “real world” knowledge from field experiences in over 60 countries directly to our students, in an effort to best prepare them to work as a professional in the rapidly expanding Executive Protection and Bodyguard Industry.

Here are 3 reasons to get started at ESS Global

  • How to become a bodyguard - Train at ESSThe Only D.O.E. Certified Executive Protection School in Florida

You should only attend a school that is licensed through the department of education (D.O.E.). Then, you know that both their curriculum and instructors have had to of been reviewed and approved. All instructors have had background checks performed on them and have had to provide credentials that attest to their knowledge and ability to properly instruct. Additionally, the course syllabus is reviewed and approved.

  • ESS Global Corporation Has The Experience 

ESS Global uses proven methodology, derived from protective security operations, security consulting and of course, security training, in over 60 countries around the world.  These operations have been conducted in threat environments ranging from “negligible” to “imminent”.

  • State of the Art Active Shooter Training

Virtra Simulator for active shooter in ESS Executive Protection TrainingIn addition to being the only D.O.E Certified Executive Protection School here in Florida, we are the only school offering active shooter training as part of our Bodyguard/Executive Protection training via the only VirTra Simulator here in Tampa Florida and the 1 of only 2 pubic installations in the entire country. It’s a close to real as you’ll ever get. And ESS Global is currently the only Executive Protection Training in the country utilizing this state of the art tool.
If you are serious about the Executive Protection Industry, choose a school that is serious. If you are serious about Executive Protection Training in the Tampa/ Clearwater area, choose a school that is licensed and approved by the D.O.E. for Executive Protection Training.
ESS Global also offers group rates, discounts, referrals and private classes.  ESS will take its top-rated D.O.E. Executive Protection Training course to you as well as offering private courses for groups, organizations or businesses.
If you are a veteran, please ask us about our flexible payment options.
Updated 12-23-17
2018 Calendar is up –
Also ESS Global Corp is now approved by the VA to accept GI Bill Benefits.

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Executive Protection Training in Tampa October 26-28

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ESS Global Corp is pleased to announce our next Executive Protection Training in Tampa May 15-17 at our headquarters in Tarpon Springs.
Updated 02-09-17 2018 Calendar is up 
Also ESS Global Corp is now approved by the VA to accept GI Bill Benefits.

Executive Protection Training in Tampa


Having just completed an Executive Protection training where over half the students were law enforcement, correction officers and military special ops, we thought it would be a good idea today to announce our next D.O.E. Approved Executive Protection Training in the Tampa/ Clearwater Area is May 15-17, 2017.

Thinking of entering the world of personal protection?

Great. For an overview, read our detailed Executive Protection Training Guide.

What you need to watch out for.

executive-protection-training-in-tampaThe world of personal protection is exploding. Recent events throughout the world, especially here in the US, are causing ordinary citizens to take Situational Awareness (a class every EP agent should take), and high net-worth individuals such as celebrities, CEO’s, sports figures, and more, hire executive protection specialists for themselves and loved ones.
Consequently, many “schools” have popped up. Watch for claims such as…

“Get Certified in Executive Protection”

When choosing a facility for executive protection training, be alarmed when you see phrases like;

  • “Get your protection specialist credentials from ABC”
  • “Earn your certificate in executive protection at XYZ”
  • “We are the only school where you can earn 2 certificates in one training”

Know that no federal, state or government agency issues any “certificates” or “credentials”. Anything you get from anyone, including ESS, is a piece of paper and nothing more.

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Executive Protection Training – Threat Assessment at ESS Global

While some ancillary EP training, such as baton or pepper spray, have ASP paperwork, in the protection industry, there is no “license”, no testing, and no boards in most states. Executive Protection is usually lumped into the same category as Security Guards or Private Investigation and has little to do with either.
Yet we see training to earn your “certified protection specialist credentials” advertised online. Unfortunately, nobody is regulating these schools, training centers and trainers. Meaning, nobody regulates or monitors what is taught and who is teaching it. Anybody off the street could be teaching you false and/or misleading information and you are paying for it. So your “protection credentials” at the end of the day is a piece of paper from the trainer and nothing more.
So beware Executive Protection Training “Schools” that talk about the “certifications” and “credentials” they have for you, more than they discuss their own school’s “certifications” and trainer “credentials”.
Know that no single school owns the basic concepts of Executive Protection.
Sure, we’ve seen websites where they have trademarks (TM) on common phrases like “certified protection operator” or “certified protection specialist” to make them look like their ideas are “official”. Just look at these with a grain of salt.
While some schools and instructors will try to give you the impression they invented, own or somehow refined EP skills all by themselves, the simple fact is that everyone in the EP industry has learned from someone before them.

Do The Research – Executive Protection Training in Tampa

executive protection trainingAt some point, anyone that wants to work in EP will need to attend a credible EP School. Here at ESS Global, we’ve spoke with ex-law enforcement, security guards, ex-military and more that heartily disagree with that statement. But when they attend our EP class they are in agreement. “I never knew any of that.”
The bottom line is there is no school, no facility, no instructor, that can teach you everything you need to know in 1, 3, 7, 15, 30 or 365 days.
It’s just not possible.
What you do need to do, to begin a career in EP, is you need to get a solid foundation. That is what matters most. Not a piece of paper. For a building to stand the test of time, it needs a foundation. It’s no different for Executive Protection Training. Down the road, you can focus on other specific training to further your career, depending on the path you take. But you need a solid foundation without the fluff.
ESS Global Corp Executive Protection Training
executive Protection training - the only D.O.E. Certified executive protection school in the state of FloridaAt ESS Global Corp, we are aware that there are competitors who state that they offer similar Executive Protection Training Programs. However, our Executive Protection School in the only protection training facility certified and approved by the Department of Education in the state of Florida (and one of just a handful that are D.O.E. certified across the country). This also means our trainers are approved by the D.O.E. as well.
ESS Global also uses proven methodology, derived from protective security operations, security consulting and of course, security training, in over 60 countries around the world. These operations have been conducted in threat environments ranging from “negligible” to “imminent”.
Virtra Simulator for active shooter in ESS Executive Protection TrainingIn addition to being the only D.O.E Certified Executive Protection School here in Florida, we are the only school offering active shooter training as part of our Bodyguard/Executive Protection training via the only VirTra Simulator here in Tampa Florida.  This is 1 of only 2 pubic installations in the entire country. It’s a close to real as you’ll ever get. And ESS Global is currently the only Executive Protection Training in the country utilizing this state of the art tool.

Why do we use it?

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An ESS Graduate Protecting Taylor Swift

One critical component of a quality executive protection training is the ‘realism’ it provides. Real-world performance is often directly related to the realism and intensity of training. Said another way, the more realistic the training exercise, the more skills are transferable to a real-world situation. Thus, realism is critically important to any close combat tactical trainer. Threats during training – The stress of receiving return fire, can be safely simulated with the Threat-Fire in the VirTra simulator.

Executive Protection Training in Tampa

If you missed the last executive protection training in Tampa, you can access our calendar of events.

Questions?

727-940-7926

info@essglobalcorp.com

Executive Protection – An Issue of Trust

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In executive protection, while it’s true that your client must trust you, there can be an issue of trust with teammates that leads to trouble.

Executive Protection – An Issue of Trust

Trustworthy – able to be relied on to do or provide what is needed or right : deserving of trust : worthy of confidence (Source: Merriam-Webster’s Learner’s Dictionary)

It goes without saying, that if a client doesn’t have full trust in their Executive Protection agents, Things can quickly go downhill.
But what about your teammates?
The World of Executive Protection
how to get started in Executive ProtectionIn Executive Protection the “hard” skills are often perceived as being that of a policeman or military. Though there are certain similarities; proficiency with handguns, hand-to-hand combat skills, etc.
However, the psychological skills needed are almost identical as well. Any person taking responsibility for another person’s life will have to consider the adaptability of their psychological capabilities in a variety of situations.
One of the EP primary skills is “adaptability”. This is the adaptability of working in different atmospheres. Keeping the mind relaxed while waiting for a client or a sudden change to a much higher level of stress is very important in Executive Protection.
And how we deal with adaptability, can lead directly to the issue of trust.

Executive Protection – An Issue of Trust

Executive Protection – An Issue of TrustTrustworthiness is one of the best traits an executive protection specialist can have. But it’s more than client trust. It’s also trust from teammates.
Very often, the same teams will work with different clients in different parts of the world. This means separation from family and loved ones, but it also means the “team” is now family. And that means team members get comfortable with each other, kid each other, rag on each other, generally over private radio frequencies.
Occasionally, for better or for worse, this banter may be between agents of differing ethnicities or nationalities.
You can see where this is going…

Whoops

So one day, an agent cracks a joke directed at a group of 3 teammates. 2 thought it was funny and 1 agent was offended.
Now stop for a minute and think what might happen at your workplace if you were the “offendee”. Chances are good you would go to that employee, express your feelings, try to “dial it down” amiably, hoping to gain an apology and then everyone can move on. Or maybe go to a team leader or supervisor (up the ladder).
All perfectly acceptable solutions.

But this was different.

You see, unlike an office environment, in the Executive Protection world you also have a client. And that was the agent’s first stop.
You read that right.
“Bob” didn’t address the offending agent. “Bob” didn’t talk to the team leader or “go up the ladder” at his own company. He jeopardized everyone on the assignment. “Bob” went…
Executive Protection – An Issue of Trust CFODirectly to the CFO of the client’s company.
Now the busy CFO hears out the grievance and dutifully sends out an email to all the agents detailing the incident and asking for more decorum.
The Next Day
The next morning, the team forget to call “Bob” and leaves to pick up the client without him. They “forgot” to tell “Bob” what time they were leaving the hotel.
It Gets Worse
The team (minus Bob) picks up the client and the client notices Bob is MIA. “Where’s Bob?”
“We haven’t seen him. We don’t know where he is.”
The client calls his office and say “Send “Bob” home.”
Fired.
It Gets Even Worse
Earning and keeping trust with your teammates is essential. Your life, the lives of your teammates and the life of the client depend on that trust. “Bob” breached that trust in the biggest way possible. There were plenty of options that day and “Bob” (who was well-liked) chose one that put the entire mission in jeopardy and broke that trust.
“Bob” was quickly black-balled in the industry and after years and years of experience, now works at a gym.

Trust your teammates, earn their trust, keep their trust.

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ASP Tactical Baton Training Tampa

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ASP Tactical Baton Training Tampa March 26 – Recognize the threat, reduce the threat, and determine how and when to use force.

Updated 03-10-17

ASP Tactical Baton Training Tampa March 26

ASP Tactical Baton Training Tampa March 26 at ESs Global 

asp tactical baton training tampaThe ASP Basic Certification (ABC) is a 7-hour, hands-on seminar which trains participants in the operational use of the ASP Tactical Baton. The program is simple to learn and easy to understand. It provides effective defensive impact weapon tactics for law enforcement and private security personnel, as well as responsible civilians without long hours of training. The techniques were designed to work effectively for all users, male and female, large and small, fit as well as those in less-than-peak physical condition.

This training teaches you how to identify the stages of conflict in order to recognize the threat, reduce the threat, and determine how and when to use force. You will be taught how to use proper defensive positions, methods of movement, drawing techniques, baton counter-strikes, and baton retention techniques and more.

The ASP program provides portation (carrying) and presentation (drawing) procedures as well as striking techniques. These tactics are quickly learned, easily practiced and readily maintained long after the program is completed.

The impact weapon techniques in all ASP Tactical Baton programs are designed to meet three standards of training:

  • logoThe techniques work on the street, not just in the classroom.
  • The techniques are court defensible and are backed by the nation’s most experienced use-of-force consultants.
  • The program is administratively feasible for use in a contemporary private security or law enforcement agency.

ASP Tactical Baton Training Tampa March 26

Class Length:   2.5 hours classroom, 4.5 hours training and drills.

Tuition: $105.00

To Register or Check out other EES Global Upcoming Classes 

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How to Get Started in Executive Protection

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You’ve thought about, looked into it, and said to yourself “I can do that.” How to Get Started in Executive Protection – EP Training in Tampa.

How to Get Started in Executive Protection

If you’ve wondered how to get started in Executive Protection, here is a short guide to help you get started.

Are You Prepared?

You genuinely need to determine if you are ready, both physically and psychologically, before you begin your search for an Executive Protection Training School.
Additionally, ask yourself these questions:

  • how to get started in Executive ProtectionAm I willing to take another human being’s life to save my own or the life of another?
  • Am I capable of defending another, or myself and then render first aid and/or CPR to the very person I just injured?
  • Am I ready to face the consequences of my actions and defend those actions in a court of law?
  • What about the effects of my actions on my family and my friends, how will the public view my actions?

Ready to learn how to get started in Executive Protection?

Choose the Trainers Wisely

When choosing a training school the big variables are;

  • Who is training you?
  • The distance from you
  • The length of the training

Who is Training You?

Are they currently active in EP? Or are they describing what it was like 5, 10, 20 even 30 years ago? This is tremendously important. You will want to be trained by a company and more importantly, trainers that are currently active in executive protection projects. The ESS Global trainers have current EP experience in over 50 countries.
Another possible issue is what are they teaching you? In other words, who wrote the curriculum and who has reviewed it for accuracy and relevancy?
how to get started in executive protection - choose wiselyIn the world of Executive Protection training, we often find a curriculum that is simply cribbed from who they learned from (and how long ago was that?).
At ESS Global, we write the curriculum directly from our experience in the field. And it is fresh every year. And the D.O.E. comes in and reviews both the trainers and the curriculum. Every year. It’s a huge project, but we do it to protect you. All the information you are presented with in the ESS Executive Protection training class has been reviewed and approved by the Department of Education.
And we are the only security company in the state of Florida that is D.O.E. certified. The ONLY one.
Updated 12-15-16 2017 Calendar is up – Also ESS Global Corp is now approved by the VA to accept GI Bill Benefits.

The Distance from You

Most of our security training classes are held at our corporate headquarters north of Tampa/Clearwater in Tarpon Springs Florida. At various times, we do have executive protection training in other cities such as Orlando, Raleigh, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and more as needed. But why wait? It’s 3 days. Which bring us to…

The Length of the Training

How long is the training? The reason that this is important is that the length of the training has no bearing whatsoever on the quality. 
How to get started in Executive Protection - The basicsWhat we find at ESS is that the best approach to Executive Protection Training is to cut “the fluff” and hammer on the basics. In other words, give you the tools to build a solid foundation in Executive Protection, without wasting your time learning “the fluff” used to extend training in order to justify a higher training price.
Case and point. One basic EP training we saw includes “how to perform your operations with a gas mask on”. Really? In a basic training? We can think of about a few thousand more important things you need to be trained on in an executive protection training, and it’s a perfect example of the “fluff” found  in the world of EP training.
Lastly, out in the real world, where most executive protection training will fail you is in “customer service” skills. Yes, we teach the tactical stuff. We’d like to think we do that better than anyone. But we also train on real world client issues. Our executive protection clients don’t check in at hotels. They don’t wait in lines. They don’t wait for restaurant service because the menu was in the car and the food was ready at arrival.
We teach the customer service issues in the real world that most every executive protection training never mentions, much less teaches you.

Because it’s the basics.

And in the real world of executive protection, it’s almost a certainty, that you will lose a client because of basic customer service issues, as opposed to protection/tactical issues.

How to get started in executive protection - tactical trainingThe ESS Global Training presents all the needed information to get started in Executive Protection in 3 days. The Tuition is $500.
If you are serious about the Executive Protection Industry, choose a school that is serious. If you are serious about Executive Protection Training, choose a school that is licensed and approved by the D.O.E. for Executive Protection Training.
ESS Global also offers group rates, discounts, referrals and private classes.  
If you are a veteran, please ask us about our flexible payment options.

Have Questions on how to get started in Executive Protection? Give us a Call.

ESS Global - what is executive protectionPlease call 1.888.816.0132 or email us at info@essglobalcorp.com

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