The Johari Window was invented by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in the 1950s as a model for mapping personality awareness. By describing yourself from a fixed list of adjectives, then asking your friends and colleagues to describe you from the same list, a grid of overlap and difference can be built up.
- A model for self-awareness, personal development, group development and understanding relationship
- Also referred to as a 'disclosure/feedback model of self awareness', and an 'information processing tool'
- Represents information - feelings, experience, views, attitudes, skills, intentions, motivation, etc - within or about a person - in relation to their team, from four perspectives
- Can also be used to represent the same information for a team in relation to other teams