Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help: 1 (AGENCY/DISTRIBUTED)

This is a superb book. I suppose after many years of learned writings, and practical experiences of consulting, it all comes down to something simpler. This is a process of throwing away all the complexity. This is what it looks like the author has been through. We are left with the gift of the distilled wisdom of many, many years. Boiling it all down to the simplest of human relationships, and one of great value and, indeed, love. Helping other people.

Very good

Insightful and easy to read. A must read for Consultants who desire to deliver efficient and effective service to clients.

Helping is a behaviour response most of us embrace naievly, occasionally approprietly! Schein expands this basic skill to something of a science. Helpfully, he explains the power gradient that arises in the Helping relationship, which when linked to our understanding of the role of humility in 'Servant Leadership' and 'Level 5' leadership offers a route to its practice. Hence, great leaders have learned the knack of offering and recieving help.

I read this book with a very thankfull mind. Schein is a very wise man in a time when speed and quick solutions rule. The book offers so much to reflections about your job, your relations and yourself, and it is not a cookbook for better life. It is a book that can help you to be wise and helpfull yourself. Schein says "When my knowledge has helped other people, then I know I know something" I can only say to Schein: "You know many things!"

Schein schafft es auf fast jeder Seite komplexe zwischenmenschliche Wechselwirkungen anschaulich und einfach darzustellen und zu erklären. Dabei mit einem hohen Selbsterkennungsfaktor.

This book is the latest by the person who first described the importance of culture within an organization. He has spent his career studying organizations and people in them and working in process consultation and organization and human development. He has contributed a long list of significant works to the literature of the field. This book is not, however, academic or theoretical. It is a very personal statement of beliefs about the role of the helping professional and speaks to other helping professionals at a personal level. It raises questions that can lead the reader to refine her or his perspective on the role of the helper and the practice of helping as both a professional and person to person. What does it mean to help someone? When is help helpful and when is it not? What is the role of the helped in being helped? For most of us helping is a one way process based on good intentions. This work redefines that process as a relationship and describes what is necessary for it to work for both the giver and the receiver. Schein further turns our notions of helping on their heads by introducing the belief that successful help depends on humility on the part of the helper (no matter how good his or her intentions) and equitability in the relationship between helper and the helped. If you are open to some deep reflection and significant new insight into how you operate as a helping person whether professional or personal I strongly recommend this book. It can reframe both your aspirations and your approach. It did mine.

Edgar H. Schein est un des grands penseurs de ce que les Anglo-Saxons appellent "organizationnal behavior" (i.e. comportement organisationnel). On lui doit de multiples réflexions dans différents domaines qui ont fait avancer la connaissance. Ici, dans la suite de son travail sur le processus de la relation de conseil ("process consultation") il se livre à une analyse fine et rigoureuse de ce qui se joue dans la relation d'aide. On y trouve beaucoup d'idées lumineuses, qu'on regrette de n'avoir pas formulées avant lui, sur la façon juste de se situer dans ce mode relationnel qui est tout sauf évident. La force de ce grand théoricien réside dans le recul critique qu'il sait avoir sur sa propre expérience et dans sa manière très accessible de nous partager sa réflexion. Un grand livre à lire destiné à ceux, et ils sont nombreux, pour qui la relation d'aide est un part importante de leur activité.

Crisp length and easy to read writing style helps this book to be very effective in conveying the concepts and make it stick as well.

書いてあることは多分もっともなのだと思いますが、細かく分析しすぎてて実際的には自分に生かすのは難しそうです。