Creating An Individualized Training System

After watching lots of different dog owners at the dog park, I have been trying to design my own Poodle training system for me and the little one.
I have also watched a few videos on training my dog, but I'm unimpressed with video trainers as they either seem mean as hell or quite phony. I think I'll stick to personal observations.
Puppies are like children. They take effort, time, and a lot of attention in order to teach them to behave appropriately in different situations.
The training program will have to have some fun aspects to it or I won't want to follow through on it and the puppy won't have any interest in it at all. I have, however, found a great new recipe for beef treats I am going to bake up to use strictly as training rewards.