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5 Common Mistakes When Using Johari's Window at Work
Johari’s Window is a powerful tool but is often over-simplified or misused at work.
If you are like me, you have probably come across Johari’s Window at some point at work. In fact, if you have worked with me I probably introduced you to it. It’s a little out of vogue these days but for a while, it was pretty much on every management and leadership development programme there is.
Sadly, like anything that becomes mainstream, it has become somehow both twisted and diluted (apologies to my secondary school English teacher for the mixed metaphors). So I wanted to give a quick explanation of the model and how it is typically misrepresented in the work setting.
A quick overview
It was created in 1955 by Joseph Luft and Harry Ingham so the smart amongst you will have worked out why it is called Johari’s Window (JW). If you are really interested in the history and an extensive explanation you can find more detail here, here and here.
Basically, JW is the idea that any information about us can be divided into things others know about us and things they don't AND things we know about ourselves and things we don’t…
