An updated and comprehensive guide to seventy-five key elements of mentoring

Patterned after Strunk and White's classic The Elements of Style, this third edition concisely summarizes the substantial existing research on the art and science of mentoring. W. Brad Johnson's and Charles R. Ridley's classic guide, The Elements of Mentoring, reduces this wealth of published material on the topic to the seventy-five most important and pithy truths for mentors in all fields. Here are the 75 practices of master mentors.

These include what excellent mentors do, what makes an excellent mentor, how to set up a successful mentor-mentee relationship, how to work through problems that develop between mentoring pairs, how to mentor with cultural humility and in diverse mentorships, what it means to mentor with integrity, and how to end the relationship when it has run its course. Succinct and comprehensive, this is a must-have for any mentor or mentor-to-be.

W. Brad Johnson is professor of psychology at the U.S. Naval Academy and a faculty associate in the Graduate School of Education at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of 13 books, several on the topic of mentorship. He lives in Annapolis, MD.

Charles R. Ridley is professor of Counseling Psychology at Texas A & M University and Co-Director, Research Core of the university's Center for the Study of Health Disparities. He lives in College Station, Texas.

They are the authors of The Elements of Mentoring and The Elements of Ethics for Professionals.