The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring: A complete guide to effective mentoring, 1st edition

Published by FT Publishing International (February 29, 2024) © 2025
  • Ruth Gotian
  • Andy Lopata

Table of contents

How to use this book and who it is for  
Why mentoring is so important 
Types of mentoring programme 
Why mentoring is NOT coaching 

Part One - Being an effective mentor 
  1. Why should you mentor other people? 
  2. What are your responsibilities? 
  3. The ingredients of an effective mentoring relationship 
  4. The Mentoring Meeting  
  5. How to deliver the best value 
  6. How do you know and what should you do if the relationship is not working? 
Part Two - Your organisation's approach to mentoring 
  1. Where mentoring relationships go wrong 
  2. Who is responsible for leading the programme and who needs to support it? 
  3. How do you identify and match mentors and mentees? 
  4. How will you measure success? 
Part Three - Being an effective mentee 
  1. Why are we talking about being a good mentee in a book about being an effective mentor? 
  2. How do you find the right mentor for you? 

Author bios

Andy Lopata is an expert in professional relationships and networking for over 20 years, author of five books, blogger for Psychology Today and podcast host. Teaches mentoring to senior executives at leading global organisations such as Philip Morris International, Accor Group and to the global Board of Mercer. Other clients include Glaxo SmithKline, Astrazeneca, HSBC, Academi Wales (Welsh Government leaders), The Prime Ministers' Office in Dubai (through Duke Fuqua Business School). He is also the author FT Publishing title: Recommended. 

Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Associate Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former founding Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development and has won multiple international mentoring awards. In 2021, she was selected as one of 30 people worldwide to be named to the Thinkers50 Radar List, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking, and recently won the Thinkers50 Distinguished Achievement “Radar” Award ranking. In 2022, she was named one of the top 20 mentors in the world by the International Federation of Learning & Development. 
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