Dog Handler Academy

Your business has a culture, but is your culture working for you? Within this course designed specifically for the dog care industry, HR and company culture expert Rob Van Craenenbroeck details how to overcome barriers and successfully build a healthy culture for your business. Topics include leadership’s role, cultural consciousness, avoiding resentment in your team, how to incentivize your team, how to implement changes, hiring and retaining talent, culture evaluation, offering an employee an exit, employee growth and work purpose, key behavior habits, relationship equity, and next-level outcomes.

The Dog Handler to Day Trainer Course provides an introduction to basic obedience dog training for the experienced dog handler employee. Dog Handler to Day Trainer Course topics include: tools (treats and rewards, treat pouches, training leashes, collars, hand signals), building trust and becoming a resource, creating attachment (coercion, scent, affirmation, and sculpting behaviors), vocabulary and commands (name, good, anh-anh, come, find it, wait), and applications (training outside, training pet parents and pet family, jumpers). At the end of this course, the learner must submit a video to Dog Handler Academy showing him/her as the trainer with a dog, demonstrating these skills from the course: walking the dog, calling the dog’s name, giving treats along the walk; loose leash walking (without using the dog’s name); the “wait” command (e.g., at a door with the dog waiting to go through until asked by the trainer); the “anh-anh” command and taking a half step into the dog’s personal space for spatial pressure. The business or individual who purchases the course also receives access to a series of videos and ideas to create (or improve) your dog day training or dog school program.