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Training Framework Part 1 – Obedience

October 8, 2018 ciera 5277

Training Framework Part 1 – Obedience

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

· Developing a framework for obedience that you are comfortable with.

· The importance of having a solid foundation before progressing onto more advanced skills.

· Compartmentalizing behaviors that can then be called upon or strung together in different orders, rather than pattern training behaviors.

· Learning theory, understanding conditioning theory (both operant – positive/additive and negative/subtractive consequences – and classical – learning through association).

· The five schedules of reinforcement – fixed ratio, variable ratio, fixed interval, variable interval, and random.

Key Takeaways:

· Having a framework, and a conceptual understanding, for training allows you to go back a few steps in training if needed as you understand the training progression.

· Once you have a framework, then look at what behaviors you need to plug in and train within the framework.

· Tangible rewards are meaningful. We can manage those tangible rewards so it is a variable reward, but don’t take away rewards for only praise.

· The dog needs to learn there’s not just a reward for doing a behavior, but there is also a consequence for not doing the behavior.

· You must teach the dog how to resolve the behavior of non-compliance.

· Both motivation and compulsion, used properly, are key elements to the training progression.

“You’ve got a framework, within that framework you’ve got your training progressions. Your framework gives you the big view, the macro view. The progressions give you the micro view of all the individual things that you have to train. And then together you have to look at that and compartmentalize your training.” — Jerry Bradshaw

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Website: https://controlledaggressionpodcast.com/

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Train Hard, train smart, be safe.

Show notes by Podcastologist Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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Thriving in the Dog Business

In this episode, Jerry Bradshaw discusses:

-Knowing your craft and your business, putting the time in, and the value of patience. Have patience, vision, persistence, and diversify in concentric circles, not all at once.

-Lifelong learning is important. Don’t allow yourself to think you know everything. Admit what you don’t know and be willing to learn it. No learning is worthless.

-Breaking things down to their component parts. Take your ideas and break them down into actionable pieces.

-The importance of relationships and communication. Be kinder to one another, be more grateful, and be the person you want to be.

-Metrics on which you can measure your business, other than just money.

Key Takeaways:

-Take a personal inventory of your competitive advantages. What can you do particularly well that you can bring into the endeavor that you are going to undertake?

-A lot of the skills you need to know when starting your business can be learned.

-Go into your day with a plan of what you need to get done.

-We are living in a world where people expect quick communication. Be quick, responsive, and efficient in how you use your time every day.

-Learn from failure. Be resilient. Think about those things that you are grateful for every day.

-Thriving in the dog business is all about making the best relationships you can possibly make.”

“Do those things that are going to gain you knowledge and put you in positions where you want to be, in front of people you want to be in front of (people you want to learn from, potential customers, whatever it may be).” — Jerry Bradshaw