Mentorship Leading with Purpose: Effective Strategies to Build Talent, Trust, and Retention

Build the kind of workplace people don’t want to leave. In Mentorship: Leading withPurpose, Thomas M. Tostado, PhD, shows how purposeful mentorship strengthensculture, transfers institutional knowledge, develops talent, builds trust, supportswell-being, and improves retention—with steps you can apply immediately.Inside, you’ll learn how to:• Explain why mentorship matters—and how it closes knowledge gaps and reducesattrition.• Choose between informal and formal mentorship based on your goals and context.• Use the four stages—meet and greet, cultivation, closure, and repurpose—tobuild durable relationships.• Apply Five Effective Strategies to build talent, trust, and retention.• Design and run a mentorship program—sponsorship, training, monitoring, andrisk awareness included.Mentorship isn’t a feel-good extra—it’s a practical leadership system for onboarding,development, performance, and belonging.

Book details

• Author: Thomas M. Tostado PhD
• Publisher: WestBow Press (AS)
• eText ISBN: 9798385081363
• Print ISBN: 9798385081370
• Format: Reflowable Layout
• Language: en
• Copyright: 2026