TheJohari WindowKnowing your team..

What is Johari Window??• Developed by American psychologists Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham

in the 1950's.

• Calling it 'Johari' after combining their first names, Joe and Harry.

• It is a useful tool for self understanding, awareness and personal growth.

• It can also be used to discover your strengths, blind spots and areas to explore

The Model• Represents information - feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills,

intentions, motivation, etc

• Can also be used to represent the same information for a team in relation to other teams

• It assumes a high trust environment.

A volunteer please….!!!

Open Area

Blind Area

Hidden Area

Unknown Area

Known by Others

Unknown byOthers

Known by Self Unknown by Self

The Open Area

Key Features• Also known as the 'area of free activity’

• Information about the person is known by him and his team

• The aim in any team is to develop the 'open area' for every person

• Because when we work in this area with others we are at our most effective

• The space where good communications and cooperation occur

The Hidden Area

Key Features• ‘Hidden self' or 'avoided self/area' or 'facade’

• What is known to ourselves but kept hidden from, and therefore unknown, to others

• Information that a person knows about himself, but which is not revealed or is kept hidden from others.

• Sensitivities, fears, hidden agendas, manipulative intentions, secrets etc.

The Blind Area

Key Features• ‘Blind self' or 'blind area' or 'blind spot’

• What is known about a person by others in the group, but is unknown by the person him/herself.

• Could also be referred to as ignorance about oneself, or issues in which one is deluded

• Also include issues that others are deliberately withholding from a person

The Unknown Area

Key features• ‘Unknown self‘, 'area of unknown activity‘, 'unknown

area‘

• Information, feelings, latent abilities, aptitudes, experiences etc, that are unknown to the person and unknown to others in the group

• Can be prompted through self-discovery or observation by others, or through collective or mutual discovery

The Goal of the Model

Open Area

Hidden Area

Blind Area

Unknown Area

Known by Others

Unknown byOthers

Known by Self Unknown by Self

Open Area

• Asking for and receiving constructive feedback

• Encouraging disclosure

•Managers promote a climate of non-judgemental feedback.

• Group response to individual disclosure, and reduce fear

Open Blind

• Self Disclosure

•Organizational culture and working atmosphere - Team members' preparedness to disclose their hidden selves

•Must always be at the individual's own discretion

Open Hidden

• Self-discovery/ observation by others/ collective or mutual discovery

• Counselling

•Not to be confused with developing the Johari 'hidden area’

OpenUn

known

Theory of

The Green Tail!!

If someone says you have a green tail, that person is crazy!

If two people say you have a green tail, that is conspiracy

If 7 people say you have a green tail, you turn around and look.

A Constructive Feedback

Purpose – To help, not hurt

It is specific and focused on behaviour that can be changed

Limited to amount of feedback that the targeted person can use

Feedback should be clarified o avoid misunderstanding

Queries??

“You can have anything in life if you Just help enough other people get

What they want”

Vishnu V.K