Purina Masterclass: Developing a Plan of Action: Advanced Dog Problem Solving

Over the course of my forty-year career, I have been blessed to be around some of the most accomplished Field Trial Retrievers our sport has seen. Without exception, every one of those marvelous dogs experienced challenges along the way.
In my early years of training, I thought the great dogs didn’t have problems. I wanted to put these icons on a pedestal. I just assumed that their whole career went without a hitch... but I couldn’t have been more wrong.
I recall a meeting we had at Handjem at the beginning of a winter trip. Mike Lardy, Ray Voigt, and I sat down to discuss the team of dogs we'd be training that season. We went through each dog individually. We looked at each dog's previous year's field trial performance. We spoke in-depth regarding the areas where each dog needed improvement.
This was a very accomplished group of dogs. Many of them were already field champions. Every dog that we discussed had flaws that we wanted to address. Once we identified each dog's weak areas, we set out to develop a plan of action...............
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What suggestions do you have for a dog that has a lot of potential but appears to analyze too much?