Tom FerrariVP - GTM & Technology Search, UltraTalent · Placing elite sellers & builders at startups

Master Workplace Mentoring Structure, Outcomes, and Growth

4 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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Tom Ferrari and a co-speaker lay out how to build a workplace mentoring program that actually works. They stress the need for clear structure to replace vague check-ins, documenting agreed actions to hold people accountable, and recruiting mentors from different departments to bring fresh perspectives.

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For anyone that's listening that's, you know, wants to get involved with mentoring in their own workplace, how do you go about it? How do you set it up so that it, you know, it, there's actually some structure to it and some outcomes to it and benefits longer term? Do you recruit others to get involved as well to get, you know, different perspectives depending on, you know, what area of the business they're working in and how do you get the business to support you?
Yeah, so you do need some structure to a mentoring relationship, otherwise it can end up in a fortnightly or monthly just to catch up. And that I don't think serves the purpose of what you're trying to do. So the first one is I document actions and outcomes so that when we get back to that month, I say, now you agreed to do this. Has that been done? So that keeps people on task, which is good.