The Art of Helping

Summary

We can test the comprehensiveness of our initiative responses to the helpees’ experience by rating our initiative responses to the helpees as follows:

High initiative	—  Implementing steps
Moderate initiative	—  Defining goals and developing programs
Low initiative	—  Personalizing goals

As can be seen, the low levels of initiative are consistent with the high levels of personalizing (goal). The moderate levels of initiative involve defining goals and developing programs while the high levels involve implementing steps.

LEVELS OF INITIATIVE

We can now complete our cumulative scale for helping. If the helper is attending, responding, personalizing and initiating to develop the steps to achieve the operationally defined goal, ...