{"id":5036,"date":"2019-01-01T12:19:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T11:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/?p=5036"},"modified":"2019-06-17T21:07:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T19:07:13","slug":"good-trainer-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/good-trainer-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Trainer Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you become a better animal trainer?<\/p>\n<p>One useful approach is to acquire good trainer habits. And in the video below (chapter 11 from the final module of my online course Advanced Animal Training) I discuss what I think are 30 such useful trainer habits.<\/p>\n<p>Not that the concepts are that terribly advanced, frankly &#8211; most of them make sense and are useful to beginner trainers too!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>When I first started planning this lesson I was originally thinking of discussing common trainer mistakes, but that would end up being a long list of<em> don\u2019t do this<\/em>, and <em>don\u2019t do that<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>So, rather than bring your attention to undesired behaviour I\u2019ll introduce some useful trainer habits, and explain why I think they\u2019re valuable.<\/p>\n<p>The do\u2019s rather than the don\u2019ts.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/278428533?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"525\" height=\"394\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I published and discussed one of these habits on my Facebook page &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pg\/illis.se\/photos\/?tab=album&amp;album_id=1821367161307703\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head on over there<\/a> to check them out and follow the discussions!<\/p>\n<p><em>Also, which useful habits have you acquired (and there are bound to be many that I&#8217;ve overlooked!) that&#8217;s helped you become a better animal trainer? Please let us know in the comment&#8217;s section!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Several of my students asked for posters illustrating the different habits, so I prepared a pdf with all of them. Interested in a copy? Just <a href=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Good-trainer-habits.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, acquiring good habits is not all there is to <a href=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/how-to-become-a-better-animal-trainer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">becoming a great animal trainer<\/a>, but it&#8217;s a start.<\/p>\n<p>And as Zig Zigler once said: you don&#8217;t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Interested in learning more? Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/courses-menu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available courses<\/a>, or grab a copy of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/e-book-keys\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">free e-book<\/a>\u00a0covering some of the things I wish I had known when I first started training animals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/e-book-keys\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5021 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/illis.se\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Free-ebook-keys-training.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"527\" height=\"716\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Free-ebook-keys-training.png 527w, https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/12\/Free-ebook-keys-training-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you become a better animal trainer? One useful approach is to acquire good trainer habits. And in the video below (chapter 11 from the final module of my online course Advanced Animal Training) I discuss what I think are 30 such useful trainer habits. Not that the concepts are that terribly advanced, frankly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/good-trainer-habits\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Good Trainer Habits&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5036"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5580,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5036\/revisions\/5580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.illis.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}