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Explanation of Johari Window

The Johari Window is a psychological model that helps with self-awareness, personal development, communication, and relationships. It divides things people know and don't know about themselves and how others see them into four quadrants: open space (known to self and others), blind spot (unknown to self but known to others), hidden area (known to self but unknown to others), and unknown area (unknown to self and others). Understanding these quadrants can provide insights to improve awareness, feedback, and interactions with others.

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Explanation of Johari Window

The Johari Window is a psychological model that helps with self-awareness, personal development, communication, and relationships. It divides things people know and don't know about themselves and how others see them into four quadrants: open space (known to self and others), blind spot (unknown to self but known to others), hidden area (known to self but unknown to others), and unknown area (unknown to self and others). Understanding these quadrants can provide insights to improve awareness, feedback, and interactions with others.

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Johari window is a psychological tool created by joseph luft and harry ingham in 1955. It is a simple and
useful tool for understanding and training:

self-awareness
personal development
improving communications
interpersonal relationships
group dynamics
team development; and
inter group relationships

It is one of the few tools out there that has an emphasis on “soft skills” such as behaviour, empathy, co-
operation, inter group development and interpersonal development. It’s a great model to use because of its
simplicity and also because it can be applied in a variety of situations and environments.

it's working:

4 Quadrants

The Johari window has four quadrants, that represent four combinations:

1. Open Space: Known to you – Known to others

This Open Space is about the behaviour that is known by you and also seen and acknowledged by others. You
can communicate about this. Still, it sometimes happens that there is behaviour that is disturbing to the
environment, where someone is aware that it is. It isn’t always easy to acknowledge when someone is
confronted about this by someone else. Patience and caution are important when discussing this behaviour
with someone.

2. Blind Spot: Unknown to yourself – Known to others

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The Blind Spot can be very difficult to manage, and can cause others to talk about you. This is because they
can see something that you don’t. Perspiration odour, the frequent use of the same word or continuous
pulling of the nose are examples of this. The Blind Spot can also occur in the working environment. Someone
can be unaware of the fact that he works slower than his colleagues. Others are aware of this, however, which
can cause certain irritations. If feedback is not given properly to another, he will stay stuck in his old behavior
and is likely to fall outside the group.

3. Hidden Area: Known to yourself – Unknown to others

In the Hidden Area, people can keep certain information to themselves and not share it with others. The
office clerk can keep hidden from his colleagues that in his free time he is a jazz guitarist. The Hidden Area
can also be unknown to a limited number of other people. The same office clerk may have a good colleague
with whom he does share his hobby, making it a subject for communication. In that case, this Hidden Area
slowly shifts to Open Space.

4. Unknown Area: Unknown to yourself – Unknown to others

No communication exists about this Unknown Area. Purely because of the fact that both parties are unaware
of it, which means it won’t become the subject of discussion.

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