If your new year resolutions are now a hazy fog (something about giving up chocolate? Now where did I put that Snickers…), you know how difficult behavior change can be. Dog trainers are in the business of persuasion and motivation – supporting habit, mindset, and relationship change for humans and canines alike. These changes are […]
Training Practices
Training Practices
Breaking Up With Clients Is Hard To Do
The old song says that breaking up is hard to do. If you’ve ever had to part ways with a client, you know that it’s true. So true, in fact, that dog pros often wait far too long to let challenging clients go, choosing to live with ongoing stress rather than face the uncomfortable moment […]
5 Tips for Successful Client Participation
If you get a group of dog trainers together there is generally one thing they agree on: motivating and inspiring clients can be tough. In an age of busy living, quick fix solutions, and information overload, it’s easy for clients to lose ‘training steam’ or find it difficult to make long-term changes. Yet client participation […]
… And Repeat. Using Repetition to Help Dog Owners Succeed
Dog trainers have an interesting resistance to repetition. I’ve noticed this pop up in many places—in our conversations with dogbiz business consulting clients about their training programs and classes, in chats with trainers at our trade show booths at conferences, in online Facebook and forum conversations. I hear trainers bemoan having to repeat concepts to […]
Want your training classes to stand out? Get specific!
What do you think of when you hear ‘dog training class’? For many, a six week course teaching a set of basic skills may come to mind. It may be a puppy course, or general manners for adult dogs. While this format remains one of the most common, it doesn’t have to be. At dogbiz […]