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Prior to preparing your response to two (2) of colleagues, pay particular attention to the following Resources:
1) Center for Creative Leadership. (Producer). (2017). Building an authentic Leadership Image [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from Authentic Leadership: What It Is, Why It Matters | CCL
1. Mind Tools. (2018). The Johari window: Using self-discovery and communication to build trust. Retrieved from http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/JohariWindow.htm
1. Nair, S. K., & Naik, N. S. (2010). The Johari window profile of executives of a public sector undertaking. Management and Labour Studies, 32(2), 137–148.
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Respond to at least two (2) of your colleagues’ in one or more of the following ways:
· Share an insight you gained about the topic of self-concept from reading your peer’s posts and why that insight is important or what you will do differently as a result of gaining it.
· Offer at least one other communication skill that you think can assist your peers in decreasing a blind spot and why you think it will help.
· Offer at least one other communication skill that can assist your peers in diminishing a façade and why you think it will help.
· Offer an additional strategy that your peers can use to improve how he or she communicates his or her image in a way that aligns with what is intended and your rationale.
· 4 – 5 paragraph response per each colleagues
· No plagiarism
· APA citing
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1st Colleague – Natasha
Discussion 2 - Week 1
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Mursid describes the Johari Window as a communication tool that helps people improve their understanding of self and others (Mursid, 2016). Other scholars describe the Johari Window as one of the most simple and popular models of explaining interpersonal communication styles by helping people practice the process of receiving and giving feedback (Naik & Naik, 2010). To understand how the Johari Window model aids people in communication, it is important to understand its components. The components include the open area, the blind area, the hidden area, and the unknown, all of which are placed into quadrants.
The open area is a quadrant that represents the things that both I and others know about myself (Mursid, 2016). For instance, I, as well as others, know that I am friendly, organized, honest, patient, and helpful. The blind area, which is presented as the second quadrant, is about the things that I am not aware of but are known to others. My peers' feedback revealed that I am wise, trustworthy, confident, idealistic, empathetic, mature, dependable, and observant. These are qualities that I did not perceive myself to have before seeking feedback.
The third quadrant, which is the hidden area, refers to what I know about myself that others are unaware of. For instance, I am competent, sentimental, shy, spontaneous, and self-conscious. The fourth quadrant of the Johari Window is the unknown area that consists of things that I do not know about myself, and neither do other people know (Mursid, 2016).
My results of the Johari Window showed a slight difference between my self-concept or façade and how others describe me. This aspect was apparent in the second quadrant and third quadrant, representing the blind area and the hidden area, respectively (Mursid, 2016). For instance, the blind area quadrant revealed that I am confident, whereas the hidden area revealed that I am shy and self-conscious, which is the opposite of being confident. Therefore, my peers’ description of me as confident caught me by surprise because deep down, I am aware of my shyness and self-consciousness, aspects that my peers have no clue about.
However, many of the other descriptions that I got from the blind area align with my self-concept. For instance, being described as trustworthy and dependable align with being honest and helpful aspects that were revealed in the quadrant presented as the most important, which is the open quadrant (Mursid, 2016). At the same time, most of the descriptions in the three quadrants, the open area, the blind area, and the hidden area, are relative in my case, even though I was not aware of some of the traits. For example, it is difficult to be spontaneous without being observant and idealistic. Further, being sentimental is tied to being empathetic. It is easy to see how my blind areas are not so far from my open areas and hidden areas from this perspective. Rather, they are intertwined in defining who I am.
The Johari Window model significantly informs interpersonal relationships ((Naik & Naik, 2010). Interpersonal relationships are the core foundations of positive corporate cultures that lead to the achievement of goals in the contemporary work environment. My self-concept and the concept of others about me, which stem from communication, are fundamental to forming interpersonal relationships in both personal and professional contexts.
In other words, building a compelling professional image will require me to enhance my communication skills. Quintanilla & Wahl posit that demonstrating excellence as a communicator is the key to demonstrating excellence as a professional (Quintanilla & Wahl, 2020). Further, excellence in communication helps in fostering effective interpersonal relationships that contribute to professional excellence. Thus, the strategy that I intend to deploy to create a good professional image is to use effective communication skills to build positive interpersonal relationships in professional realms.
Mind Tools. (2018). The Johari window: Using self-discovery and communication to build trust.
Retrieved from http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/JohariWindow.html
Nair, S. K., & Naik, N. S. (2010). The Johari window profile of executives of a public sector undertaking. Management and Labour Studies, 32(2), 137–148.
Quintanilla, K. M., & Wahl, S. T. (2020). Business and professional communication: KEYS for workplace excellence (4th ed.) Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications.
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· Open area- This area represents things that you know about yourself, and others know about you.
· Unknown area- This area represents things that neither yourself nor others know (Mursid,2016)
Mind Tools. (2018). The Johari window: Using self-discovery and communication to build trust. Retrieved from http://www.mindtools.com/CommSkll/JohariWindow.htm
Nair, S. K., & Naik, N. S. (2010). The Johari window profile of executives of a public sector undertaking. Management and Labor Studies, 32(2), 137–148.
Porter, J. (2017). Why you should make time for self-reflection (even if you hate doing it). Harvard Business Review.
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