How To Find A Mentor - Dr Ruth Gotian
Looking for ideas to find a mentor? Ruth Gotian, Ed.D., M.S., the author of The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring with Andy Lopata, discussed this with me on Episode 83 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast and she mentioned the following that may help:
🔷 Mentors are everywhere, you just have to keep an eye out and connect - "Now, where can you find a mentor, wherever they're interesting people? … Where do you find friends? You don't think about it. You just go about your day and you connect with people ... 61% of effective mentoring relationships happen organically",
🔷 Be prepared - "you need to come prepared to those situations. Now, you need to be able to talk about something, not in a way that it's transactional, ... people want to help those who they know, like, and trust. And people want to mentor people who show that they are curious, show that they're motivated, show that they will outwork everyone, show that they want to do this. Those are the people that mentors want to mentor" and
🔷 Find commonalities - "Now, the way you do that is actually not by talking about yourself. What you want to do when you meet someone is have a conversation where you find where you are connected, how you gel, what is that overlap that you have with the other person? Maybe it's a favorite food. Maybe it's a favorite vacation spot. Maybe it's something that they're wearing. Whatever it is, there's a way to connect."
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Ruth is the Chief Learning Officer, Associate Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean for Mentoring at Weill Cornell Medicine, is a globally recognized expert in mentorship and leadership development. Hailed by Nature, Wall Street Journal, and Columbia University as an expert in mentorship and leadership development, she was named a top 20 mentor worldwide.
Thinkers50 ranked her as the #1 emerging management thinker in the world in 2021, and LinkedIn recognized her as a top voice in mentoring in 2023. A semi-finalist for Forbes 50 Over 50, Ruth is a prolific contributor to Harvard Business Review, Forbes, and Psychology Today, where she shares insights on 'optimizing success.'
With a focus on the mindset and skill set of peak performers, including Nobel Prize winners, astronauts, Olympic and NBA champions, she's also an award-winning author of The Success Factor and The Financial Times Guide to Mentoring along with Andy Lopata.
If you would like to know more about Ruth and her work, her website is https://www.ruthgotian.com/
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