A scientific as well as psychological tool to understand yourself and your team. A must know kind of knowledge that would help you keep your team's spirits up.

1. The
Johari
WindowKnowing your team..

2. 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

3. 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.

4. A volunteer please….!!!

5. Open
Area
Blind
Area
Hidden
Area
Unknown
Area

6. The
Open Area

7. 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

8. The
Hidden Area

9. 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.

10. The
Blind Area

11. 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

12. The
Unknown Area

13. 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

14. The Goal of the
Model

15. Open
Area
Hidden
Area
Blind Area
Unknown
Area
Open
Area

16. • 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

17. • 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

18. • Self-discovery/ observation by
others/ collective or mutual
discovery
• Counselling
• Not to be confused with
developing the Johari 'hidden
area’
Open
Un
known

19. Theory of
The
Green Tail!!

20. 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.

21. A Constructive
Feedback

22. 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

23. Queries??

25. Vishnu V.K