--- product_id: 8435860 title: "Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series)" price: "₩30908" currency: KRW in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.kr/products/8435860-helping-how-to-offer-give-and-receive-help-the-humble store_origin: KR region: South Korea --- # Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series) **Price:** ₩30908 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series) - **How much does it cost?** ₩30908 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.kr](https://www.desertcart.kr/products/8435860-helping-how-to-offer-give-and-receive-help-the-humble) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description A Strategy+Business Best Leadership Book of the Year: An “uncommonly wise” analysis of the psychological and social dynamics of helping relationships (Warren Bennis, author of On Becoming a Leader ). Helping is a fundamental human activity, but it can also be a frustrating one. All too often, to our bewilderment, our sincere offers of help are resented, resisted, or refused—and we often react the same way when people try to help us. Why is it so difficult to provide or accept help? How can we make the whole process easier? Many words are used for helping: assisting, aiding, advising, caregiving, coaching, consulting, counseling, guiding, mentoring, supporting, teaching, and more. In this seminal book on the topic, corporate culture and organizational development guru Ed Schein analyzes the social and psychological dynamics common to all types of helping relationships, explains why help is often not helpful, and shows what any would-be helpers must do to ensure that their assistance is both welcomed and genuinely useful. He shows how to navigate the delicate acts of asking for or offering help; avoid pitfalls; mitigate power imbalances; and establish a solid foundation of trust—and how these techniques can be applied to teamwork and organizational leadership. From the bestselling author of Organizational Culture and Leadership , and illustrated with examples from many types of relationships—husbands and wives, doctors and patients, consultants and clients— Helping is a concise, definitive analysis of what it takes to establish successful, mutually satisfying helping relationships. Review: An outstanding contribution to change agents and helping professionals in every field - 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. Review: This is a great, very helpful little book. - 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+. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #90,282 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #211 in Workplace Culture (Books) #371 in Popular Psychology Counseling #727 in Business Processes & Infrastructure | | Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 265 Reviews | ## Images ![Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81EY0rqn+KL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An outstanding contribution to change agents and helping professionals in every field *by A***R on September 6, 2012* 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is a great, very helpful little book. *by A***. on October 1, 2011* 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+. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Thorough and useful book on a the seemingly simple subject of helping *by B***E on May 26, 2021* What should I say? I know what I will get when I pick up yet another book from Ed Schein. That is, a well-research, well-thought-over, easy-to-read book. "Helping" is not an exception. It is a relatively small book (150 pages) on just the subject of helping. We help people every day, but how well do we understand it and how can we improve it? The book consists of nine chapters. It starts with definitions and setting the context for further understanding helping. It then gradually changes towards actions and choices you have as a helper by using the frame that was created in the earlier chapters. The book ends with a summary in the form of principles and tips. These make the book very concrete. Roughly the first four chapters create the frame for the rest of the book. They define the meaning of helping, explore the language and assumptions around helping, give insights into the power differences in helping relationships, and explore different helper roles that we can take up. To me, these chapters set up the stage of the rest of the book where it applies these concepts to explore situations, which result in concrete advice for you as a helper. The next four chapters are more concrete where the author explores what you can do in a helping relationship and how you can improve your helping. This is done through the inquiry process (which is also the topic of several other books of Ed Schein). He shows different types of inquiry, how they might be perceived, what result they might lead to, and when you might use which one. This is immensely helpful for improving your own helping relationships. The book concludes with a principles and tips chapter. This chapter summarizes some of the key concepts covered in the book and also translates them into concrete tips. I do not think I have ever been disappointed by picking up an Ed Schein book. "Helping" was wonderful and insightful. Such a depth to a seemingly simple topic. I really enjoyed it and would especially recommend it for people in coaching (including Scrum Master) roles. The only reason for 4 (over 5) stars is that a lot of the content is also covered in Ed Schein's other work and some of that is more thorough than this little book. 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