HOW MUCH IS THAT ZUCCHINI IN THE WINDOW? THE JOHARI WINDOW AND THE ZUCCHINI CONNECTION: TWO INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS MODELS BY JOSEPH LUFT RST & ASSOCIATES Facilitating organizational effectiveness Robert S. Travis Organizational Effectiveness Consultant RST & Associates 301.655.1073 [email protected]June, 2014
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HOW MUCH IS THAT ZUCCHINI IN THE WINDOW?
THE JOHARI WINDOW AND THE ZUCCHINI CONNECTION: TWO INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS MODELS BY JOSEPH LUFT
RST& ASSOCIATES
Facilitating organizational effectiveness
Robert S. TravisOrganizational Effectiveness ConsultantRST & [email protected]
June, 2014
THE JOHARI WINDOW
The Johari Window is a well-known model demonstrating awareness, especially of behavior and feelings, in interactions between people.
It was developed in 1955 by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham (“Joe” and “Harry,” giving it the name “Johari”).
But, where to put the “fact,” as he sees it, that he looks like Robert Redford?
Since the whole window represents the person as he/she really exists, false beliefs like this don’t really fit in any quadrant.
The same is true of false beliefs others may have about the person.
For example, if Peter Boyle had convinced the cashier that he did look like Robert Redford, her mistaken belief wouldn’t fit into any quadrant, either.
Where the quadrants of the Johari Window can change shape and relative size, Luft designed the Zucchini Connection as a static model.
The relative sizes of the sections of the boxes, or of the zucchini, do not indicate how much information is there.
The model simply illustrates that images of a person, whether held by himself/herself, or by someone with whom the person is interacting, contain both correct and incorrect perceptions, while showing that some parts of the person remain unknown to both parties.
They are presented here in the hope that the viewer will use either, or both, as appropriate, in the study of, and in working with, interpersonal relations.
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