Johari Window
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The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
To start, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe you, from the list below:-
A Johari window is a metaphorical tool intended to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic device to encourage people to open up to another in self-disclosure. The concept was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram, who combined their first names to create the name of the tool.
The test consists of a list of terms, each of which is an adjective relating to a personality trait. (For example, the list might begin with "accepting", "adaptable", "bold", "brave", "calm", "cheerful", and "complex".) A subject will select a few of these terms which he feels describes himself best. Each of his peers will then select a few terms which that person feels describes the subject best.
The terms are then plotted in a square grid divided along two axes into four quadrants. One axis represents "known (or not known) to self", and the other represents "known (or not known) to others."
Terms which were not selected by either the subject or his peers remain in the "Unknown" quadrant, representing the subject's behaviors or motives which were not recognized by anyone participating.
Terms selected by both the subject and his peers are placed into the "Arena" quadrant, representing the fact that everyone involved knows these particular pieces of information about the subject individual; they have been openly communicated.
Terms selected only by the subject, but not by any of his peers, are placed into the "Façade" quadrant, representing information about himself of which his peers are unaware. The choice is then up to the first individual to bring the information into the open (self-disclosure) or to use it to his advantage.
Terms selected not by the subject but by his peers are placed into the "Blind Spot" quadrant. These represent information of which the subject is not aware, but his peers are, and they can decide whether and how to inform the individual about his "blind spot".
The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
To start, pick the five or six words that you feel best describe you, from the list below:-
A Johari window is a metaphorical tool intended to help people better understand their interpersonal communication and relationships. It is used primarily in self-help groups and corporate settings as a heuristic device to encourage people to open up to another in self-disclosure. The concept was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingram, who combined their first names to create the name of the tool.
The test consists of a list of terms, each of which is an adjective relating to a personality trait. (For example, the list might begin with "accepting", "adaptable", "bold", "brave", "calm", "cheerful", and "complex".) A subject will select a few of these terms which he feels describes himself best. Each of his peers will then select a few terms which that person feels describes the subject best.
The terms are then plotted in a square grid divided along two axes into four quadrants. One axis represents "known (or not known) to self", and the other represents "known (or not known) to others."
Terms which were not selected by either the subject or his peers remain in the "Unknown" quadrant, representing the subject's behaviors or motives which were not recognized by anyone participating.
Terms selected by both the subject and his peers are placed into the "Arena" quadrant, representing the fact that everyone involved knows these particular pieces of information about the subject individual; they have been openly communicated.
Terms selected only by the subject, but not by any of his peers, are placed into the "Façade" quadrant, representing information about himself of which his peers are unaware. The choice is then up to the first individual to bring the information into the open (self-disclosure) or to use it to his advantage.
Terms selected not by the subject but by his peers are placed into the "Blind Spot" quadrant. These represent information of which the subject is not aware, but his peers are, and they can decide whether and how to inform the individual about his "blind spot".