Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help

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.

Must read...good for people interested in counselling

Professional service providers as consultants, lawyers, doctors can all gain immensely from this book to reshape their ‘day in life’ and become more effective.

This book captures the social aspects of the action - helping. Whether you're a helper or a client(receiver) to sheds light on what's useful and what's not useful. Tips and Pitfalls. Encourages to engage in trial and error until you master the 4 types of Inquiry.

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

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.

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.

This book on helping is very very very helpful. As Dr. Schein clearly points out, helping is at the heart of every social relationship. That includes friendship, marriage, teamwork, etc. For me the book has been eye opening, because the process of offering and giving help has always been exciting for me. Exciting and often very frustrating. As a management and strategy consultant, the advice and insights offered in the book are simply great and you can come up with a personalized framework to offer and give help, based on the short, yet vast and complete information provided in book. This little book will sure transform the way you approach your clients or anyone in a helping setting, be it a simple request for help from a stranger in the street, to a request for help in homework from your children, or advice requested in a leadership or organizational development coaching. The broad reach of the subject of this book makes me recommend it to everybody who just happens to want to be a better person. And be perceived by others as such. A+.

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。