Business Articles
Tim Toterhi, CHRO
(Toe-Ter-Rye)
Tim has over 20 years of management experience in the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He’s been quoted in publications such as Fast Company, Forbes, Fox Business News, and the HuffPost as well as profiled in the book, Magnificent Leadership.
What to Look For In a Mentor
A good mentor can change the trajectory of your career, shorten your learning curve, and point out pitfalls that would otherwise impede your professional progress. Given their firsthand experience and well-earned wisdom, they are invaluable at every stage of one’s...
The Most Vital Career Skill
Every story has a setting – and granted, some are more comfortable than others. Still having perspective, being able to see beyond your initial circumstance will serve you well throughout your career…and your life. In my case, the skill helped me see beyond the...
How to Improve Your Professional Engagement
Employee engagement is at its peak when workers respect and ideally like their managers, fit well into the company’s corporate culture, and derive meaning from their work. Sometimes organizational stars align to provide employees with this trifecta of factors, but...
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How HR Can Address a Pay Gap
The first step is to ignore the Internet. It’s littered with misleading statistics and cross-profession comparisons. Knowing that schoolteachers in South Carolina make less than engineers in New York City is certainly a data point, but one that is as irrelevant as it...
3 Communication Blunders to Avoid
When you’re a leader be it of a team, department, or entire organization every message you send counts. To ensure your communication hits the mark be sure to avoid these classic blunders. Burying the Lead - Employees don’t care about how good something is for the...
3 Key Skills for Cross Functional Managers
Core job skills are always important, but if you want to shine in a cross-functional leadership role, you’ll need to master these three soft skills: Delegation: By definition, all members of your team will have different, vital areas of expertise. Even those within...
5 Things To Do Before You Go Freelance
The freelance lifestyle looks awfully attractive from the confines of a corporate cubicle. Pod dwellers often envision pajama-clad, commute-free workdays, where flexibility reigns and no one gives you the side eye if you step out make to squeeze in that doctor’s...
Candidates: How to Avoid the “Maybe” File
Recruiters get flooded with applicants even during times of low unemployment. To keep up, many organizations have implemented applicant tracking systems that enable frantic HR staff to at least issue form letter rejections to those candidates who clearly miss the...
Time for a Career Change?
December is a popular time to review the past, take stock of one’s accomplishments, and map the future. Often this is as simple as generating a new goal list – a plan of attack to help expedite your journey down the current path. Sometimes however, your...