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Are Clubs Completely Irrelevant? #leadership #success #teamwork #training #wagalicious dogs Jun 03, 2025

What do service clubs, civic clubs, and dog clubs have in common? Two major things, it turns out.

Are you in a club, or maybe more than one? It could be Rotary, Toastmaster, PTA, or your local kennel club – do you belong? If so, maybe you’ve noticed a couple of things – the club is smaller than it ...

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Harnessing Your Inner Animal Control Officer to Lead Your Team #leadership #success #training #wellbeing behavior communication difficult personality Apr 11, 2023

Dogs are an important part of my life. Yours too? Growing up, my family always had a small dog and she (it was always a “she”) was a member of our family. The first was Bobbie, the one who sadly taught us the importance of not allowing puppies to dash out the door unrestrained. Next was Pixie, from ...

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Training Dogs and People #focus #goals #leadership #success #training #wellbeing Feb 28, 2023

Even if you don’t have a dog, you just might learn something about leadership, your own self-development, and training humans from this newsletter, so please humor me on this one.

As a life-long dog person and someone who’s been deeply involved in dog sports all my adult life, you might guess that ...

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