#52: Operationalize This

Drinking From the Toilet: Real dogs, Real training

Drinking from the Toilet: Real Dogs, Real Training

How To, Education, Pets & Animals, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 2 April 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The process of operationalization takes a fuzzy concept or construct, and makes it clear… so that we can talk about it, we can measure it, and we can have internet arguments and know that we are talking about the same thing. This is critical to dog training and animal behavior discussions where we are often using subjective terms to describe concepts like "enthusiasm" or "aggression". These concepts can have different meanings to different people, based on their culture, life experience and learning history. And that's ok! The important thing is to be able to define it: "When I say 'ball feelings,' I mean..." And then we are all on the same page. ps - Check out my upcoming virtual workshop, Set It and Forget It. www.wonderpupstraining.com/workshops For full show notes, visit: www.wonderpupstraining.com/podcast/52

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it's Hannah Branigan here, back with another episode of drinking from the toilet.
0:19.9	Before we get started this week, I want to tell
0:21.7	you about a new experiment I'm trying for a live virtual training workshop. Now, this is not an ordinary
0:28.2	webinar if you've done a webinar with me before, and I want to make sure that it's pretty clear
0:32.6	that this isn't different so that, well, so that we have clear expectations. So instead of 45 minutes or an hour of
0:39.2	slides and me talking and then maybe a few minutes of Q&A if we can squeeze it in, we're going to
0:43.6	take something of a flipped classroom approach, except that in this case, the classroom itself is virtual.
0:50.5	I want to run this as I do a lot of my seminars in that when you sign up and before the actual
0:55.0	workshop, you'll receive some reading material and homework exercises to get started on your own.
1:00.4	In this case, I had originally intended this to be an article that was going to be maybe two or three
1:05.2	pages long, but as these things tend to do, it kind of got away from me.
1:09.4	And I got kind of excited about the topic,
1:11.2	and it ended up being more like 12 or 13 pages long, without any figures or images. And then I
1:18.9	discovered that I wanted to make some new videos to include as examples. And well, okay, so it got
1:24.0	pretty big, but hopefully in a value-added kind of way, not in an overwhelming
1:29.3	stream of consciousness kind of way.
1:31.3	I think it'll still be helpful to you, and if anything, it's just that much more helpful
1:36.3	information and examples.
1:38.3	But anyway, you get some reading to do about the concepts with examples and then some homework exercises
1:44.6	to get you started, which also include instructions for those and then video examples there
1:48.9	too. Then the workshop itself will be heavily focused on implementation and interaction.
1:56.0	We'll meet. We'll go over the material, build on it a little bit, and talk about your homework, and then I'll
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