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42. Relationship Skills

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42. Relationship Skills

Definition 9,8,7 6,5,4 3,2,1
Handler’s ability to help team work well together and/or advance the dog’s confidence and/or skills. Handler is very skilled in building a trusting relationship and advancing the dog’s confidence and/or skills.

    Handler communicates clearly, uses appropriate praise and reward and provides clear boundaries, uses skills to direct the dog
 Handler is less skilled or lacks skills in some key areas, which occasionally impairs their ability to work well together and/or advance the dog’s confidence and/or skills.

    The level of handler skills mildly impacts the handler’s ability to build a trusting relationship with the dog, communicate clearly, use appropriate praise and reward, provide clear boundaries and use skills to direct the dog
 Handler is not very skilled and lacks skills in some or many key areas, which frequently impairs their ability to work well together and/or advance the dog’s confidence and/or skills.

    The lack of handler skills moderately to severely impacts the handler’s ability to build a trusting relationship with the dog, communicate clearly, use appropriate praise and reward, provide clear boundaries and use skills to direct the dog.

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