JOHARI WINDOW

The Johari Window is the psychological model developed by Joseph Luft and
Harrington Ingham that helps an individual to understand his relationship with
himself and with other group members.

Objective: The objective behind the creation of a Johari window is to enable an

individual to develop trust with others by disclosing information about him/her
and also to know what others feels about him/her through feedback.

The Johari Window model is made up of four quadrants that explain the overall
relationship of an individual with himself and with other group members. These
are as follows:

1. Open Self: This quadrant shows the behavior, motives, attitudes, and
knowledge skills of an individual that he is aware of and is willing to share
it with others.

2. Blind Self: The blind self shows the state of an individual known to
others but not known to him.

3. Hidden Self: This quadrant of the Johari window shows the state of an
individual known to him but not known to the others, e.g. introverts

4. Unknown Self: the unknown self is not the mystetrious state of an

individual known to him nor others know about it.

The ultimate need is to enlarge the open self quadrant with the intent to
establish a fruitful relationship with the self as well with others such that the
work can be performed efficiently when working as a team.

SWOT Analysis
SWOT is a tool that helps to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats of an organization or an individual.

Application and functionality of the group depends on information from two key
factors:

1. Internal factors: Strengths & weaknesses

2. External factors: Opportunities & Threats

SWOT analysis involves /Goals:

1. Specifying the objectives

2. Identifying favourable and unfavourable, internal and external factors
3. Identifying strength and weaknesses, opportunities and threats
4. Developing fuller awareness of internal and external factors.
5. Exploring possibilities of new efforts or solutions to problems.
6. Making decisions
7. Identifying opportunities for success
8. Determining where change is possible
9. Refining plans

Advantages of SWOT Analysis:

1. Helps boost self image.

2. Helps in finding life and career direction
3. Helps develop strategies to attain individual and team goals.
4. Helps in achieving better friends and colleagues.
5. Shows an individual his/her current stand on the path of success.
6. Helps identify the scope of reaching desired goals.
7. Boosts career, life and personality.
8. Helps to understand yourself better
9. Maximizes your strengths and diminishes your weaknesses.
10. Helps in identifying and enhancing soft skills.
11. Helps to understand your preferences and personality traits.
12. Focuses on developing attitudes, abilities, skills, capabilities and
capacities.

The process of SWOT Analysis:

1. Provide honest answers.

2. Identify your contributions; reality check.
3. Analyze your strengths and weaknesses.
4. Make an effort to bring about positive changes.
5. Analyze the outcome of efforts
6. Understand the threats and work towards overcoming weaknesses.
7. Proactively work towards turning weakness into strengths.
 8. Work towards eliminating the threats
9. Give importance to the strengths
10. Take advantage of the opportunity

Strengths:

Strengths are internal positive abilities:

1. Transferable Skills: Leadership Skills, Communication Skills, Teamwork

Skills, People Skills, etc.
2. Networking skills
3. Work experience
4. Any Knowledge: Technical knowledge, financial, etc.

Weaknesses:

Weaknesses are internal negatives:

1. Lack of Leadership, communication skills and teamwork ability.

2. Lack of networking skills.
3. Lack of know-how of any applied skills e.g. technical, etc.
4. Negative personal character and habits, etc.

Opportunities:

Opportunities are external positives:

1. Opportunity of advancement in chosen career.

2. Opportunity for personal development
3. Opportunity to develop soft and hard skills
4. Opportunity to enhance creativity, etc.

Threats:

Threats are external negatives:

1. Limited self development opportunities.

2. Competition
3. Obstacles in achieving desired goals, etc.

The SWOT Procedure:

To perform a successful SWOT on self following self-questing is required, to achieve

the same:
Identifying Strengths:

1. What do I have in me which give me an edge over others, e.g. skills,

education, experience, etc.?

2. What makes me better than other?

3. What are my accessible personal resources?

4. What do other people see as your strengths?

5. Which are my achievements that I am proud of the most?

6. What values do I believe in that others fail to show/have?

7. Am I a part of networking that others / no one else is a part of?

Identifying Weaknesses:

1. Do I lack self-confidence?
2. What weaknesses do others see in me?
3. Do I have negative habits?
4. Do I lack assertiveness?, etc

Identifying Opportunities:

1. What new opportunities do I have to enhance my soft skills and hard skills?
2. Which new networking opportunities do I have?
3. Which areas are un-explored by my competitor?
4. Can create opportunities for myself?

Identifying Threats:

1. What are the current obstacles I am facing on my journey to self

development?
2. What are the challenges I am facing in my career?
3. What are my weaknesses that can prove to be threats?
4. Who are my competitors?