The Security Officer Development Programme

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

• Identify best management practice and effective policy implementation on leading security officer principles
• Effectively operate and interact with a security function
• Identify communication strategies to build more productive communications
• Learn how to create rapport, build trust and establish credibility in a work group
• Understand the roles of Security Officer
• Understand that communication is vital to successful, productive work groups
• Identify and understand personality styles of colleagues and others in the workplace
• Know how to effectively diffuse and deal with conflict
• Run a pro – active professional security team in a multicultural environment
• Understand the legal and moral considerations on security
• Use techniques to assist others in change that impacts security coordination
• Build positive interpersonal techniques in team relationships
• Use techniques of effective and efficient time management
• Recognize the need and value of diversity among members of a work group
• Use techniques to assist in conflict problem resolution
• Recognize the most typical symptoms of tension in oneself
• Use personal change strategies to ease tension in work groups

The course will be of benefit to those who find themselves responsible for or involved with mobile or static guarding or implementing guarding security in both the public and the private sector.  In addition, it will raise the awareness for those personnel who have been allocated ‘potential’ or specific tasks in an existing security programme yet have had insufficient time to devote to the subject.

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

• Security supervisors / officers
• Facility supervisors / officers
• HR and administrative supervisors responsible for security
• Health and Safety / Fire personnel