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Telecourses are short,
to the point and affordable! And, if you missed a course you would have loved
to attend, you can access an audio version
here! TELEPHONE CHARGES: The phone call is not toll free, so you will be charged for the call. However, there are some easy, inexpensive ways to make long distance calls these days, so here are some ideas: 1. Look into free long distance service. Most major phone companies now have free long distance for a very reasonable price -- less than $50.00 per month. 2. Get a phone call to use just for business. You should be able to find a phone card at any of the big box stores for around .03 cents per minute -- that works out to $1.80 per hour! Plus, it's a write-off as a business expense on your taxes! There's an Internet service -- www.callingcard.com -- which has extremely low rates and can be purchased from your computer. 3. Investigate services such as Skype.com, which offers free telephone service over the Internet. PET OWNERS: If you are an owner taking a live telecourse to increase your knowledge, welcome! We are delighted that you take enough interest in your pet to make the effort to learn about behavior. However, please be aware that these courses are designed for animal professionals. Because of the time limitation, the speaker is not able to address individual situations, so please refrain from asking questions about your pet. If you do ask questions and they become incompatible with the goal of the course, either the speaker or a representative of Raising Canine will politely ask you to hold your questions. Please do not think that this means we are unsympathetic to your issues – it simply means there is not time in the course to do an analysis of an individual case and the questions are taking away from the other course attendees' learning experience. We do have audio-taped courses that are specifically designed for owners; additionally, all the courses are audio-taped, and we welcome you increasing your knowledge of your pet's behavior by taking these courses - they are a valuable resource. In the audio-taped courses by category, we have a list of owner recommendations; these courses will give you the basic academic background to delve deeper into how animals learn and why they behave as they do. If there are specific topics you would like to see addressed, please contact Raising Canine at info@raisingcanine.com with your suggestions. We truly appreciate your interest and enthusiasm. NOTICE: Once you've ordered a live course you will either get a receipt and then an e-mail from Raising Canine telling you that shortly before the course you will be sent the access information and materials (if any); or, you will get a receipt, an e-mail from Raising Canine with the access telephone number and another e-mail with a link to download the course materials. You MUST download the materials within 24 hours -- please put the phone number in your calendar and download the materials to a location you can find (you might want to put the location of the downloads in your calendar!). Also, you may enroll almost immediately before class time; however, you should allow at least 15 minutes to receive your access information. Also, be aware that if you have problems, it's unlikely that anyone will be available to help you once the class has started. If you need help, send an e-mail, and hopefully we'll have time to check. NOTICE: Once you've ordered a course you will either get a receipt and then an e-mail from Raising Canine telling you that shortly before the course you will be sent the access information and materials (if any); or, you will get a receipt, an e-mail from Raising Canine with the access telephone number and another e-mail with a link to download the course materials. You MUST download the materials within 24 hours -- please put the phone number in your calendar and download the materials to a location you can find (you might want to put the location of the downloads in your calendar!). Raising Canine has declared 2007 "The Year of the Business!" We spend a lot of time and money increasing our training skills, but not nearly enough honing our business skills. You can be the best trainer in five counties -- if no one knows that, you won't have a successful business! Every month, Raising Canine has at least one course dedicated to improving your business. Look for this symbol next to the course name "$"-- if you see it, it means it's a course designed to improve your business skills!
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All telecourses are audio-taped. These courses will be available on Raising Canine's website for access by those unable to attend the live course. For a listing of audio-taped telecourses, click here.
Effective Painless Punishment:
The Most Misunderstood Process in Dog Training - FREE
(enrollment limited to 195) Before we get into any discussion about the utilitarian or moral pros or cons of different training techniques, we must first make sure that we are all on the same page — that we have all trained the dog to criterion. Then comes the time to evaluate relative Reliability and Speed of Acquisition, Reward:Punishment Ratios and especially, the nature (Severity) of punishment, so we may ask the question, “ Was it really worth it?” “But first, that stuff you’re doing — is it really punishment? Prove to me that it’s punishment. If it truly were punishment, you’d be doing it less today than yesterday. If it truly were punishment last week, you wouldn’t be doing it at all today. But you still are. So what is it? Can’t be punishment ‘cos there’s no change in behavior. Maybe harassment? Maybe abuse?” Training hasn’t worked and this is when people really get frustrated and for the dog… it hits the fan. “Dog still misbehaving after all those bad times? Time to up the level of punishment? But… it wasn’t punishment in the first place. Do you really want to change from annoyance to abuse?” The first rule of punishment is tautological — punishment must be effective. If it is not effective, then by definition, it is not punishment. In order to be effective, the use of punishment must satisfy a whole bunch of criteria. I like trainers to quantify the number of Commands, Correct Responses and Rewards even when reward training. But when using punishment, we owe it to the dog to quantify the number of Punishments, to prove that they decrease over time, to prove that they are in fact punishments and to prove that the dog is being trained. When applied correctly, punishment works extremely quickly, and so there is no longer any need to punish. The persistence of unwanted behavior is proof positive that punishment is NOT being applied correctly. Rather than reflexively reaching for a more severe punishment, the trainer should learn: 1. How to train and motivate the dog so that he doesn’t want to misbehave, and 2. How to effectively use punishment and especially, how to effectively use punishments that are neither painful nor scary. The reality is that: most silent treatment, most sighs of exasperation, most shouts and screams, and most leash jerks and electric shocks are not punishment at all. Rather they are advertisement of ineffective “training”. So why don’t laboratory-proven punishment techniques work that well in practice? Learning theory comes from thousands of laboratory experiments, in which consistent computers trained animals (manly rats and pigeons) using binary quantum feedback (food pellets and electric shocks). However, people are not computers and they do not have the ability to work tirelessly and consistently for hours on end, yet many trainers still rely on quantum, non-instructive feedback (clicks, kibble and shocks). It is difficult to learn from non-instructive, quantum punishment, especially when badly timed, or applied inconsistently and with emotion. However, the use of language and voice — both analogue and instructive — allows people to deliver much more sophisticated and effective feedback (instructive differential reinforcement) and to absolutely transcend the training ability of any computer (with its consistent, precisely-timed and clinical, yet non-instructive and quantum feedback). Very high levels of response–reliability may be attained by simply, calmly and patiently, verbally insisting on cued-reliability. Harsh tones and loud voices, or any physical means of enforcement or punishment, are simply unnecessary to achieve reliable performance. And if unnecessary, maybe we shouldn’t use them at all. This course is limited to 195 attendees and access will be granted to the first 195 to call in, not the first 195 to enroll.
Do you find yourself overwhelmed with paperwork, unreturned phone calls and projects you never have time to get around to? Is it becoming a burden to spend time with friends and family? Well, it sounds like you need to institute some basic time management techniques into your work life! This telecourse will give you tools and tips to help you learn how to arrange your schedule to make the most of your time.
Puppy Business: Creating and Selling the Best Puppy Classes - $50.00 Presented by Veronica Boutelle & Gina Phairas September 9 & 16, 2009 1:00pm-2:30pm CCPDT CEUs: 3 IAABC CEUs: 3 This two part telecourse aims to set you up with the best—and most successful—puppy classes in town. How do you get people to choose your puppy class? How do you keep them coming until the end? How do you get them to sign up for the next class, and tell their friends to do the same? We answer these questions by looking at best business and curriculum practices, and the relationship between the two. Learn inexpensive, practical business practices that:
Explore creative curriculum approaches that allow you to:
Teach effectively to varied levels—human and canine
Cool Resources - $15.00 Presented by Susan Smith November 4, 2009 10:00am-11:00am IAABC CEUs: 1
Join Sue for this fun telecourse where she tells you about a ton of free and inexpensive Internet resources she's run across that will help you in your business or you can just have fun with! Come prepared with your own cool resources to share with the group.
Owners vs. Trainers: Who Should Train The Dogs? - $30.00 Presented by Veronica Boutelle & Gina Phairas December 2, 2009 1:00pm-2:30pm CCPDT CEUs: 1.5 IAABC CEUs: 1.5 For many years “Our job is to teach people to train their dogs” has been the mantra of the R+ training community. It sounds so logical. But can we really teach owners to train their dogs and solve behavior problems in a few short sessions? Or does this approach lie at the heart of the many frustrations of our profession—unfinished cases, poor compliance and income, burnout? These are the questions dogTEC sets out to answer using data from a one-year study of dog trainers who have switched their businesses from coaching (teaching clients to train their own dogs) to day training (training clients’ dogs and then teaching clients how to maintain the progress). Find out what the data reveals about these trainers’ income, satisfaction, client compliance, and case resolution. We also share best day training practices and advice gathered from the trainers involved in the study.
REFUND POLICY: The course fee will be refunded, in its entirety, so long as the enrollee requests a refund in writing no later than the 14th day after the course is concluded. Alternatively, the enrollee may request an exchange or credit toward a different course, instead of a refund.
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