Study on The Johari Window Model

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The Johari Window Model of self-awareness is a technique that is used by individuals for
the purpose of understanding themselves and also for understanding the relationship of an
individual with others (Ramani et al. 2017). The main aim of the paper is to carry out a reflection
based on the results of the Johari window model. The paper will therefore discuss about the
results obtained by undertaking the test and also from the results received from friends and
analysis of the same using the Johari window.
Figure 1: Johari window Model

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Source: (Dash 2020)
The Johari window model has four main quadrants- open or self-arena, blind spot,
Hidden area and the unknown area.
Open area
The open area includes all those attitudes, behaviours, feelings, emotions and skills that is
known to self and also to others. This area can be improved through open communication and by
listening to feedback of others (Khatoon 2018). According to the results of my test, I am self-
aware, that is I clearly understand my emptions and the way it may affect my relationships with
others and also my performance. I can manage myself well and I need to improve my
relationship management with others. According to my friends I have good self-awareness, self-
management skills. And even they feel that I can improve my relationship management skills.
Blind spot
The blind spot includes information about oneself that an individual may not be knowing
but others are aware of it (Shamoa-Nir 2017). One thing that was not known to me was that my
friends feel that I have good social awareness skills which I thought that I was lacking. Social
awareness skills include the ability to communicate openly with others and therefore build good
working relationship by building trust and rapport with others. I felt that I was unable to build a
good rapport with others at office and I was unable to gain others trust. Therefore this skills was
completely unknown to me.
Hidden area

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The hidden area includes information that a person hides from others that is a person
know some information about themselves but hides this from others and includes personal
information that people may be reluctant to reveal (Oliver and Duncan 2019). There are a
number of issues that I do not wish to share with others and I will share those information only
when I get comfortable with others and that is through better engaging communication with
others. Therefore there are still a lot of things that are unknown from my friends. For instance,
they do not know that I like singing but I cannot sing in front of everyone and therefore hide the
same from people.
Unknown area
The unknown area comprises of all those information that is unknown to ourselves as
well as others. It may include the hidden talent, capabilities and feelings (Law and Rowe 2019).
It cannot be known unless a person identifies their hidden talent and communication can also be
used for understanding more about ourselves.
Based on my own survey results, I have understood my strengths and weaknesses. One of
my major strengths is that my emotional intelligence level is ok that means I am able to maintain
good relationship with some people I work with (Serrat 2017). However, many other people may
find it difficult to work with me ([e-mail]-
www.globalleadershipfoundation.com 2020). Therefore I need to improve my empathetic skills
and social skills such that I can improve my relationship with others. Empathy is one of the most
important people skill as it includes understanding others perspectives by keeping ourselves in
their positions (Law and Rowe 2019). In order to improve my social skills I need to work on my
communication such that I can build rapport with others and build trust such that I can develop