Applying Johari Window in practice — Measuring self-growth from feedbacks
Getting Feedback using Johari Window :
Johari Window is a popular technique to discover oneself, the strengths, opportunities to improve and blind spots of your personality. I found a way to implement it in practice from all those bookish knowledge, so I’m sharing the process.
Won’t go much into one should one gather feedback, as you would agree no less that it helps one to know how they’re doing professionally and what is one’s skillset. Gives me a mirror view of what I think of myself vs what my team thinks about me (Reality check!).
How did I use it?
I sent out the list of my skill-set(starting with 6 skills) to my professional network(the people I’ve been working closely with). I used Johari app for feedbacks, you can use google forms or anything.
Ofcourse, waited for the results to come in..
The feedbacks I received from my peers were plotted on 2x2 window by the Johari App itself but if you’re using Google forms or other you can plot it on a quadrant seeing the pattern.
After plotting I noticed, there were few skills that were picked up by others while I didn’t chose them so it was a clear blind spot discovery. And few skills were picked as what I picked for me, so I was doing pretty well at self-awareness part.
What was the outcome?
I discovered what are my emerging strengths and what are the areas of my skillset that requires my attention.
And I focused on the things people asked me the most to work on, that actually improved my performance when evaluated by the end of the quarter.
Hope it’ll embrace the growth mindset in you and your team.
I’m attaching references in case you want to follow the same procedure :