Leading Thought: What is the Johari Window?
A useful framework to think about the role feedback can play on your team is the Johari Window,1 a tool used by organizations around the world to improve communication and understanding among individuals in a team. This model for self-awareness comprises four quadrants or windows, each representing a different possible combination of awareness between the leader and their team.
The first window represents the “open” self, which is known to both the leader and others on the team. The second window is the “blind spot”, which is unknown to the leader but known to their teammates. The third window is for insights that the leader knows but others do not (the “hidden” area), while the last window represents the “unknown”, which is where we all don’t know what we don’t know.
Generally, the goal of the Johari Window is to increase the size of the “open” window by increasing information sharing and feedback among teammates. Getting feedback from others is a crucial way to shift knowledge from the “blind spot” window to the “open” window, but that is sometimes easier said than done.
Read more here in our Leadership White Paper series that explains our leadership development ethos and has more details on the Johari Window.
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What We’re Reading
Finding the Coaching in Criticism by Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone (authors of the book Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well): Learn how to have difficult conversations with your athletes now to build a culture of giving and receiving feedback that is crucial to team improvement.
Pair with: This episode of the Tim Ferriss Show podcast where Dr. Heen discusses a number of great points concerning feedback giving and receiving, especially at the 46-minute mark, 1:51:50, and 1:58:37 timestamps.
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1 Luft, J. & Ingham, H. (1955). “The Johari window, a graphic model of interpersonal awareness”. Proceedings of the Western Training Laboratory in Group Development. Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles.
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