Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help (The Humble Leadership Series Book 1)

by Edgar H. Schein

Helping Leaders and Organizational Clients Helping in relation to leadership has three aspects. As pointed out in the previous chapter, one of the key roles of leader-ship is to create the conditions for teamwork where individual members of a group or several groups are interdependent in the performance of organizational tasks. How do leaders create such conditions and how does helping come into play? Secondly, in relation to subordinates, does organizational leadership imply that sometimes subordinates must be helped in performing their tasks? Can and should leaders be helpers? And, thirdly, how does one help leaders? What makes all of these questions complex is that we are now dealing with organizations where not all the people involved are in the room or even in communication with each other. That raises the whole question of who is the client.