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Then it starts with a solid foundation of learning and repetitive training followed by continuous professional development.

This will take a significant amount of your time and dedication while always striving to improve.

It takes talent and a dedicated commitment to excel at everything you do.

Not everyone is cut out for this, but if you think you are, then the first thing you will need to excel at is being able to "fact check" everything you read, see or hear.

Just like in any other highly sophisticated profession, we could all do with some clarification of what it takes to be a professional.

With easy-to-understand illustrations and descriptions you can learn about the desired characteristics of a Professional Bodyguard in this modern day and age.

The Covid-19 pandemic has given me the time, and opportunity to reflect on just what being knowledgeable on anything actually means.

Especially in view of all these wild stories, like the 5G towers being switched on is the cause of COVID 19. to Donald Trump on live TV, telling the world that to inject disinfectant will stop the virus dead in its tracks.

You will find that a thorough Threat Analysis, is essential for every successful detail that you will be undertake.

With easy-to-understand illustrations and descriptions you can explore the stages for preparing a Threat Assessment.

You will find that Strategic, Tactical, Operational and Contingency Planning, are essential for every successful detail that you will undertake.

With easy-to-understand illustrations and descriptions you can explore the different planning stages that go into every successful Security Detail.

Standard Operating Procedures are essential for every successful detail that you will undertake.

With easy-to-understand illustrations and descriptions you will discover one of the tools critical to all successful operations.

The route planning process is one of the steps taken to develop and guide operational activities when on the road.

The documents developed will be added to the Strategic plans as part of the long-range, high-level assignment objectives, one of which is to mitigate risks when travelling by vehicle.

Making decisions with the greatest amount of certainty, is something we learn to do over time. In this lesson, we will review how Close Protection Operatives work, with certainty and risk, in order to make informed decisions.

Effective decision-making is an essential skill for every Close Protection Operative, especially those who lead teams. In this lesson, you'll learn about a seven-step process for effective decision-making. You can link this to the earlier lesson about Making Decisions with Certainty.

In future years, when historians look back and write about this time period, terrorism will be a major buzzword. Terrorism is defined as an act of extreme violence in order to intimidate.

Effective communication is a necessity in the workplace, especially in our business of providing security services.

Whether spoken or written, there are four elements to effective communication that will help improve the two-way information sharing process and they involve you being clear and concise in delivery of information that is practical as well as being factual and persuasive.

A natural progression for those working as Close Protection Operatives; and certainly a step in the right direction for continued professional development; is CCTV Public Space Surveillance; and thereafter; Technical Surveillance Counter Measures.