Effective Leadership with the Dogs

Content: Effective and humane management, strong positive relationships and sound leadership skills are the foundation of safe and fun off-leash playgroups. Effective leadership is proactive vs. reactive intervention. The dogs must trust you and have a strong bond with you. Therefore, you must have a strong positive relationship and provide clear guidance to the dogs. Today’s activity will focus reviewing the traits and qualities of effective leaders as well as identifying areas of improvement for each team member

Prior to Lunch & Learn Session:

• Pick a member or two of your team to present the material.
• Review the informationprovided in this activity to ensure it aligns with your own approaches to leading dogs in the play yard. Create supporting talking points to the content in the outline. We highly encourage the leader of this activity to read Chapter 7, Effective Leadership in our book Off-Leash Play to be able to elaborate more on the talking points.
• Observe the behaviors and activities in the play yard in the week leading up to the Lunch & Learn to determine areas for improvement for the group.
• Print a copy of the second page for each attendee