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Friday, April 21, 2006

Johari Window

Well, this is one tool that Jimmy has never come across. Tool? ok, call it a method if you will. Jimmy is told that it/this is named after its inventors-Joe and Harry. Simple eh?
Turns out that this thing/method/tool is used as a tool to help people or a team-as they say in Jimmy's corporate world-understand each other better.
If you're interested and want to know more, Click here.
So Boss informs the team that he would be explaining this thing/tool/concept in the next Knowledge Sharing session. And so it happened.
Boss comfortably leans back in his chair and proudly opens up the powerpoint presentation on Johari Window. After a lonnnnggg presentation, Boss asks each person attending the session to jot down some questions and write down their answers. Of course, it had to be secret.
So here are the questions:

  1. What is your favorite color?
  2. What is your favorite food?
  3. What makes you angry?
  4. What makes you sad?
  5. What makes you happy?

Each person in the session is asked to guess what the other person might have written. The purpose of the exercise was to make out,"Do you really know the person you're working with?". Jimmy was lucky as usual. He is asked to guess his Boss' answers and well, he gets it all wrong. :(

  1. Boss' favorite color? Green and NOT Blue. Jimmy had guessed blue because Boss was wearing a Navy blue shirt that day.
  2. Boss' favorite food? Dal Makhani NOT Chicken Manchurian
  3. What makes Boss happy? Watching children play and NOT a project delivered on time. "Hmmm, he does have a heart!", Jimmy thinks.
  4. What makes Boss sad? Seeing beggars on the road and not Poverty. Jimmy was close.
  5. What makes you angry? Inefficienct people and NOT someone unpunctual

After the session, Jimmy thinks if he can get it all correct for, say his girlfriend? all he can do is guess, guess, and make more guesses.

What about you?

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