Guard Force Motivation
Course Aims:
To provide managers and security professionals with an understanding of the purpose, value and clear benefits of motivation in a security guard force environment; to demonstrate how to create a motivation project for guard force personnel, and to provide tools for measuring the project’s effectiveness.
Course Duration:
20 hours arranged to suit learners’ requirements.
Location:
On Site and Off Site (UAE and GCC)
Who Should Attend?:
Directors, human resource managers, security and risk managers and those with responsibility for managing guarding and security contracts, and performance management.
Main Topics Covered:
- Adding value to business operations through motivation
- Protective layers of security
- Internal and external threats
- Recruitment and selection controls
- Management of employee risk
- Setting up a guard force motivation project
- Tools for measuring guard force effectiveness
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course learners should be able to:
- Understand the role of motivation and its effect
- Appreciate that a de-motivated security guard can lead to a single point of failure in an organization’s security arrangements
- Recruit and select quality security personnel
- Recognize that a motivated guard force provides improved levels of security, improves staff retention, reduces absenteeism and improves an organization’s reputation
- Distinguish between the characteristics of motivated and poorly motivated organizations
- Create a guard force motivation project
- Use tools for motivating and measuring the effectiveness of a guard force
Teaching and learning methods used
- Direct instruction, group discussion, case studies, handouts, video clips, role play and group exercises