Was the Prince of Lost Dreams my Johari Window?
A few years ago, I was in the Hyatt Andaz hotel in Amsterdam, which designer Marcel Wanders themed on the prince who gave his name to the Prinsengracht (Prince’s Canal), also remembered as the ‘Prince of Lost Dreams’.
This prince was known to answer questions of people in such a way that they were able to remember their inner strengths and most exciting dreams vividly. The Andaz Prince’s statues are throughout the hotel and if you stand with your head between the hands of the statue you will recall your “lost dreams”.
I don’t know if this happened to me but what I do know is that a management error I have been guilty of for many years became clear and actionable.
In managing teams and clients over the years I always believed that missing skills could be developed using the theory of the “Four Stages for Learning Any New Skill”, which was developed at Gordon Training International by its employee Noel Burch in the 1970s. It has since been frequently attributed to Abraham Maslow, although the model does not appear in his major works.
The “Four Stages of Learning” provides a learning model. It suggests that individuals are initially unaware of how…
