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
In 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
Trustworthiness 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…
Directly 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.
We were out on an assignment where there were executive protection agents from more than one agency, and are on a private jet somewhere over Europe on the way back to California. And the client we were charged with protecting is pacing around the cabin looking for a magazine. Looking behind the bar, moving the snacks. “Where is my magazine?”
And for good reason. You don’t touch client belongings.
If you have read the 
In 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?).
What 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.
The ESS Global Training presents all the needed information to get started in Executive Protection in 3 days. The Tuition is $500.
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The simple fact is as we barrel towards 2019, there is no doubt that “personal protection” is a growing field. As you read this guide to EP, there are thousands and thousands of military and government leaders, business executives, religious figures, celebrities and families are being personally protected. And the numbers grow every day.
Corporate Security – Another trend is that Corporate Security Departments are changing fast and among the diverse and growing range of security services corporations must integrate, executive protection is probably the least integrated of all the corporate security services. Many corporate security directors don’t have experience with writing or implementing an EP strategy, and even fewer of them have conducted Risk, Threat and Vulnerability Assessments (RTVAs), which form the foundation of a Quality Executive Protection Program.
While most states have mandatory courses for Security Guards, even unarmed ones, and these are regulated by the state. But in most states the executive protection training industry is unregulated.
This is why it is extremely important when searching for executive protection training, to research your school and your instructors. Make certain that not only have your instructors worked in the Executive Protection industry, but they are active in it now! Remember, the Executive Protection industry is evolving rapidly, especially in the corporate world and EP changes just like any industry. If you are planning on attending a school where the instructor is the same person instructing for the last 20-30 years, you may want to find out how many jobs they have worked in those last 20-30 years. We are willing to bet you will be surprised.
This is why we always recommend that you go through 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.
If you are searching for an executive protection training, and if there is one thing you take away from this EP guide;
No single school owns the basic concepts of executive protection training. We’ve seen websites where they have trademarks (TM) on common phrases like “certified protection operator” or “certified protection specialist” to make them look even more “official”.
In 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 
We always say here at ESS Global Corporation: There are two things you never cheap out on, gear and training. These are the two things that may save your clients life, and yours!
If you are considering a career in the rapidly growing executive protection/ bodyguard/ Close Protection field, know that in the protection industry, there is no EP “degree” (online or otherwise), no“license”, no state testing, and no state boards in most states. Executive Protection Training 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. No government agency regulates or monitors what is taught and who is teaching it. Anybody off the street could be teaching you, and you could be paying for false or misleading information.
Our three (3) day D.O.A Approved Executive Protection School will provide you with the basic knowledge and techniques commonly used by the Secret Service, State Police, Highway Patrols, VIP and Dignitary Protection Units responsible for protecting politicians and other domestic and foreign dignitaries around the world. Our ESS Global Executive Protection Training is designed for career veterans as a refresher, or beginners in the world of close protection. This D.O.A. Certified Executive Protection Training gives you a strong start in the security industry covering city, county and state government organizations, corporate security services, security agencies and private individuals.
The ASP Basic Handcuff Certification (ABC) is a 4-hour, hands-on seminar which trains participants in the operational use of the hinged and chain handcuffs, as well as the proprietary ASP flex-cuffs. The program is simple to learn and easy to understand. It provides effective mechanical restraint tactics for law enforcement and private security personnel 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.
Brandishing a firearm is not the solution to every confrontation, but rather taking action first will always beat reacting last.
These Executive Protection Certifications training classes are an absolute must for those that are serious about success in the Executive Protection/Bodyguard/Security Guard Industry.
The ESS Global Advanced Executive Protection Training entails all the necessary work required for a live detail. Students will have to now put into action everything they learned in the Executive Protection training course. You will have to perform a security advance and threat assessment in preparation for a real live detail with a VIP on the final day of class.
This Advanced Executive Protection Course will only be for those who have completed and excelled in our D.O.E. approved Executive Protection training course. It will be by invitation only based on our instructors assessment of each student upon completion of the Executive Protection training course. Those who have completed Executive protection training courses at other agencies that we accept or have ample years of on the job training in the Executive Protection field may contact us as to whether they may or may not they qualify for this course.
This is exactly where the ESS Global Executive Protection Training School differs. We are licensed and our curriculum and instructors are all regulated and monitored by the D.O.E., and, only a select few elite schools are D.O.E. approved and certified for executive protection training. 
The bottom line is that D.O.E. Executive Protection Training has more in common with Secret Service techniques, than what “Joe’s Bodyguard Training” offers. Most bodyguards fresh out of school, will not be able to define or discuss basic processes central to Executive Protection training such as; Threat Assessment, Advance Tactics, Route Reconnaissance, Embus and Debus plans, Area Surveillance, Movement Safety, Situational Awareness, Defensive Driving and Evasion, Crowd Control, Vehicle Placement/Movement, and more. Ask anyone in the Secret Service or Special Ops. Hands down it’s Executive Protection Training, with brains over brawn. 
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It’s all about ESS Global World Class Executive Protection Training. ESS Global Corp executive protection training is taught by elite executive protection professionals who have unmatched knowledge and experience in the Executive Protection Industry. During ESS Global Corp Executive Protection Training, our primary mission is to pass down our real world knowledge and experiences gained from protection assignments of high net-worth individuals in over 60 different countries around the world, directly to our students, in an effort to best prepare them to work as a professional in the Executive Protection/Close Protection/Bodyguard Industry.
ESS Global Corp is always looking to add trained agents to our team. Due to the nature of our business and the quality of service we maintain, agents who excel in our executive protection training programs may be asked to join our team for future employment opportunities. Those agents may also be added to our database and freelance roster which creates future opportunities not only with ESS Global Corp, but other agencies as well. ESS Global Corp often functions as a referral service for employment in the industry with other agencies or clients around the world.