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.
This is an interactive website that can be used to highlight personality differences using the Johari window. Users are asked to pick no more than six words to describe themselves; this is then saved under a name a specified of the profile. The next step is to have friends supply up to six words which are entered into the site. Differences are illustrated and produced in a document that can be downloaded.
Type of Material:
Reference Material
Recommended Uses:
This resource is great for homework. The focus is on the individual, but it can be used to determine how a team views each member. Can also be in class if there is proper time allotted.
Technical Requirements:
Google Chrome Version 72.0.3626.109
Adobe Reader version 19.010.20098
Quicktime 7.78.80.95
Java 8 Update 161
Adobe Flash 32.0.0.142
Identify Major Learning Goals:
The user will understand how their personality components interact
Users will discover how their personality components are perceived by others.
Target Student Population:
Undergraduate business courses
Information for any course discussing work relationships and personalities
In organizations for teambuilding
Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:
Users should know how to use a browser, download a PDF, and copy and paste URLs into browsers As this is introductory material on personalities, no previous knowledge is necessarily required.
Content Quality
Rating:
Strengths:
Very clear in its directions
Integrates feedback from other people by providing a website for them to enter information about the person/user.
Results are available in the download (PDF) document
URL can be pasted into a journal or an email.
After friends or colleagues enter their information at the request of the user, the user can watch how the Johari Window changes.
Concerns:
There is no information available to show how this relates to concepts in this discipline
Appears to be a standalone item.
Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool
Rating:
Strengths:
Can be used in a number of different situations, learning environments, and toward various learning objectives.
This can be a useful addition for any course or exercise to demonstrate personality differences and perceptions about the behavior of individuals.
Excellent source of teaching material from a team/leader, psychology, and personal development perspective.
Concerns:
Teachers would need to focus on the necessity to establish ground rules, as the tool can be used in a disparaging manner.
Because of the type of exercise, this is limited to the concept.
This would not be an inappropriate assignment for measuring student outcomes.
Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty
Rating:
Strengths:
This is easy to understand
Clear instructions.
Students just point and click
Concerns:
None
Creative Commons:
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