Comments on: 5 Reasons Why You Should Treat Your Employees Like Dogs

By: Silicon Beach Training

Silicon Beach Training — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 12:11:10 +0000

Great Leaders will motivate, train and reward their staff, but will also show respect, there are similarities but there are some leadership skills that this view on leadership overlooks, such as repect, good listing skllls etc

By: DogTraining

DogTraining — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:57:52 +0000

Another principle in dog training that could be applied when delegating work is not punishing for the dog not understanding what you want. This could be applied in business too. Tom Kelly Art of Dog Training

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Sat, 13 Oct 2007 23:49:58 +0000

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By: Crys Odenkirk

Crys Odenkirk — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:20:38 +0000

Great points. One primary reward that’s often overlooked is fair pay. Saying “great job” means nothing if the employee isn’t making enough money to pay the rent and still eat three square meals a day, especially when the person saying “Great job” takes home more than six times what the employee does, drives an extravagant car, is always doing pricey renovations to their McMansion and flaunts it in the face of their “underlings”. Often, just being paid enough to get yourself a treat when you want it is reward enough. Similarly, if inflation is 4% in a year, managers and business owners need to realize that anything less than a 4% raise is actually a pay cut for the employee, and falls under punishment. So if you give an employee a 1.5% “merit” raise in a year that has 4% inflation, the psychological effect is that of punishing the employee for doing good work.

By: Whitney

Whitney — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:35:39 +0000

There was a great article by Amy Singer, in the New York Times, entitled “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage” on June 25, 2006, and I wrote about it on my blog discussing discipline in children.

http://ldpodcast.blogspot.com/2006_07_01_archive.html

People and animals have similar psychology and motivations- we are looking for a reinforcing response from others, and this guides a huge amount of behavior of kids, spouses, employers, employees- everyone.

By: Recruiting Animal

Recruiting Animal — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:45:36 +0000

I saw Steve Finkel a couple of times. He raises dogs and he said, regarding control of candidates: “It’s how you train puppies and it’s how you train people.”

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Poder.dk » Blog Archive » Behandl dine medarbejdere som hunde! — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:14:57 +0000

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Thu, 08 Mar 2007 02:38:42 +0000

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