Ruth Haag
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Ruth Haag (www.RuthHaag.com) was assigned her first supervisory position over 30 years ago, and she quickly began to have problems. Trained as a scientist, she began to analyze what was going wrong, and developed a management system that worked for her.
She trained other supervisors and found that her system didn’t work for all of them. Studying this problem, she discovered that supervisors fall into three predictable personality categories. Ruth now trains supervisors to identify their shortcomings and tame them, while creating management systems that focus on their employees rather than themselves.
She is the CEO/CFO of Haag Environmental Company and the author of several books, including a four-book series on supervisory management which includes, Taming Your Inner Supervisor, Day to Day Supervising, Hiring and Firing and Why Projects Fail. She currently resides in Ohio.
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The Meeting Behind the Meeting
The Meeting Behind the Meeting By Ruth Haag When we were having our buildings restored, we had four separate contractors on the site. One day I arrived, and the carpenters told me why they were working on a different room from their plan for the day; it was because they were making room for the plumbers. I asked how they had come to this agreement, since none of the contractors had worked together before.
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Fixing Business Mistakes
www.RuthHaag.com ecovering From a Bad First Impression Our company is comprised of several businesses. One is our monthly newspaper, A Sandusky Bay journal, which is supported by the ads that it sells. I was teaching business seminars at a college, and decided that since I knew the ...
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Five Signs Of Trouble With Office Management
Is your office people-environment normal? Many things that we wish wouldn’t happen, do happen every day in a normal office. Deadlines are missed, people don’t get along with one another, someone breaks the rules. All of these things are normal, day-to-day problems that can be easily dealt ...
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Six Steps To Becoming A Good Supervisor
Typically, no one is trained to be a supervisor. We all have to learn how to manage people on the fly, after we are promoted into a management position. It is helpful, when learning to be a good supervisor, to keep in mind the things that past supervisors have done that you liked and those that ...
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Paint Your Office "Green"
One of the reasons that we, as a society, create so much waste is that it is easier to have something that is disposable, than to have something that must be maintained. Turning an office environment “green” will take some work, but worth it. It is a bit harder to encourage an ...
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Break Free From Your AC
Discussions of home energy savings usually focus on using less energy to heat and cool a house, in order to achieve a lower utility bill. We like that, too, but we also like to think about how many days each year we can be independent of energy use in our home and office. We ask ourselves, ...
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Getting Along in the Office: Being Friends with Co-Workers and Employees
You probably spend as many hours at work as you do awake at home. Thus, you spend as much time with your co-workers as with your family. It is nice to be able to tell people at work important things that are going on at home. Sometimes it is nice to gain the insight of a co-worker about a ...
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Dealing With Regal People
People behave in predictable ways. If you study your co-workers for several years, you will begin to notice patterns in their behaviors. You will find that your co-workers are either: 1. Mostly conce ed about procedures 2. Mostly conce ed about people, or 3. Mostly conce ed about ...
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Success And Failure Of Holiday Office Parties
Holiday office parties are a tradition for most companies. Along with celebrating the holidays, they can provide a relaxed atmosphere in which employees can find out more about one another, and their families. However, if parties are poorly managed, they can create irritation and strife. ...
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Office Etiquette: Messages
Our modern messaging technology is so nice and quick that we have fallen into a too-casual usage of it, which often makes it difficult for the message recipient. This casualness has spread to meeting people face-to-face, where an assumption is made that everyone recognizes and remembers the ...
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