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If they can be articulated, then they can be explained and fully understood. Without this skill, we are vulnerable and inadequately prepared to fully support our clients' needs. In the previous article (Baselines of Behavior, Issue 53), we spoke about the four major behaviors: dominant, submissive, comfortable, and uncomfortable.
In this article, I'm going to touch on a few issues regarding communication in the executive protection setting. Communication itself is so vast a subject that one could write a book about it, and many have.
In the first instalment of this article (Issue 54), I discussed the comms landscape in general and highlighted the importance of treating comms (sig's) as a defined team role. I also outlined the importance of having a comms plan and looked at: How we communicate, which was split into two parts.
There's something to be said about the art of reading people, especially in the protection industry. The ability to pick up on nonverbal communication is an area where most, if not all, protection practitioners are skilled. Where the gap lies is in articulation. More specifically, having the ability to articulate what has been observed.
Only an industry spawned from the military could give rise to the array of acronyms used to describe security companies. There's PSC - Private Security Companies. PMC - Private Military Companies. And CSC - Commercial Security Companies-the acronym I believe is most accurate because all security companies exist for one reason only.
Our primary mission is to ensure the safety of our protectee, but the other side of the sword, is we cannot accomplish our mission if we put ourselves in jeopardy. So how do we protect ourselves while accomplishing our mission?