The first observable behaviors that we teach in our Tactical Analysis program are those needed to make assessments about individual people. Yet when you observe an area, establish a baseline, and hunt for anomalies, individual people get observed last. Why we have structured our class this way is a question that we often get from...
Take a look at the transcript from a former available video from Alex Fox at The Capable Civilian. .If you’re looking for other articles about Cooper’s Color Code and the role it plays with situational awareness, here are a few more articles and videos that we’ve written about the topic. The video is no longer...
“Remember that these our allies have not trained their whole lives for war, as we have. They are farmers and merchants, citizen-soldiers of their cities’ militia.” The Spartan King, Leonidas, in a speech to his officers before the Battle at Thermopylae[1] This scene from Gates of Fire, a book written by Steven Pressfield about...
.. Last November I had the opportunity to join eight other presenters on stage at the inaugural WINx Conference outside of Chicago. Here is the newly released video of my 16-minute long talk about what it takes for our nation’s protectors to get and stay left of bang. In case you want to read a...
One of the questions we often get asked at The CP Journal from people thinking about purchasing the Tactical Analysis online program is whether there is a difference between all of the courses that are available. The short answer to this question is that, for each level of the program, the different, market-specific courses are...
One of the questions that we get asked the most frequently when we present our course is whether there are any differences between the behaviors that we discuss in Left of Bang, and those that we teach in the Tactical Analysis program. There is and there isn’t. As we are only a few weeks away...
The below article was originally written as an appendix for “Left of Bang” that we decided to take out during the editing process. However, when looking at the dynamics that exist between the time and space that protectors try to maintain from attackers, the concepts discussed below are why we start analyzing those approaching us....
Over the weekend, I read a great article by Scott Stewart from StratFor, a global intelligence and analysis company, about why he believes the March 5th knife attack on Mark Lippert, the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, could have been prevented. This article provides the opportunity to highlight three important points about how the Tactical...
Sentis, “an international company focused on achieving operational excellence,” released a series of videos a couple of years ago about how the brain processes information, learns, and functions. The seven short videos in the playlist are quick and enjoyable. As the human brain drives all the behaviors that we can observe, spending the time to truly...
I was recently sent this 30-minute presentation about mental awareness given by the late Marine Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper. We reference the conditions of awareness that he created (that were later expanded upon by Col Dave Grossman) in all of our courses as an overarching framework for the benefits that behavioral analysis offer an observer....
Here is an article that I wrote for the Illinois Tactical Officer’s Association’s (ITOA) quarterly journal about how behavioral analysis applies to law enforcement. The Next Level Of Tactical Awareness – Getting Left of Bang. If you are attending the conference, make sure you stop by our booth to say hi and swing by the...
During my first year as a sales desk manager, I spent a large amount of my time listening to the recorded calls our sales people made with clients. Internal wholesalers on my team were making these calls to brokers. To those not in the financial world this sales process can be compared to that of...
There is a difference between an analysis and an assessment. I don’t know that I have always used these two words properly and, while it might sound minor or like just a semantic difference, the words do have specific and very different meanings. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, an “analysis” is defined as the careful...
Possessing situational awareness is a step in the pursuit of proactively identifying threats. But awareness, in and of itself, isn’t good enough. The goal of the Tactical Analysis training program is to create informed awareness. To know that you should be looking for something doesn’t mean that you intuitively know what you should be looking...
A couple of weeks ago I posted a video (we have heard that this video is no longer available, but that the text below is still relevant) where I talked about the different conditions within Cooper’s Color Code and how that relates to informed awareness, but I recently found a video on Twitter that illustrates the...