The Johari Window (Part 2)
Oct. 28th, 2005 01:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cinema_babeSo what does the Johari Window have to do with making me a better employee?? Plenty!
Armed with this concept of the Johari Window at a fairly young age (16 or 18,) whenever I got feedback, formal or informal, I just began to take it in as part of that blind quadrant. I’ve been told on just about every job I’ve ever had that I’m great at taking feedback and incorporating it into my job performance. And while many aspects of going through therapy was painful, again, I used to get high marks for trying out things that were suggested to my by my therapist.
Apparently I must be better than most people or it wouldn’t constantly keep coming up, lol. When I processed it, what I came to was that criticism is not a threat to me. I’m just moving data from the blind quadrant to the open quadrant.
(I also realized somewhere along the way that feedback is usually little more than an opinion and *I* choose whether I act on it or not.)
Armed with this concept of the Johari Window at a fairly young age (16 or 18,) whenever I got feedback, formal or informal, I just began to take it in as part of that blind quadrant. I’ve been told on just about every job I’ve ever had that I’m great at taking feedback and incorporating it into my job performance. And while many aspects of going through therapy was painful, again, I used to get high marks for trying out things that were suggested to my by my therapist.
Apparently I must be better than most people or it wouldn’t constantly keep coming up, lol. When I processed it, what I came to was that criticism is not a threat to me. I’m just moving data from the blind quadrant to the open quadrant.
(I also realized somewhere along the way that feedback is usually little more than an opinion and *I* choose whether I act on it or not.)
