The Johari Window shows that people are aware of their own personal issues, but conceal them from others. Some people have personal issues that are unknown to themselves but are known to others. Some people have personal issues that are unknown to themselves and others. The value of the Johari Window for group processes would be to encourage individual to be more open about their views, opinions, concerns, and emotions. The value of Process Consultation to management is to help create relationships and an environment in which learning and exploration takes place.
Managers can become consultants of their own departments.
They can evaluate to what extent their behavior or actions are consistent with their personal values versus the organizations values. Managers can learn whether their role as an expert or consultant is more productive base on the situation. When my company decided to expand each department took on their separate task, and the outcome was a considerable amount of problems resulted. Therefore at the end of this last expansion we had a meeting titled Lessons Learned which allowed each department to discuss the problem and we came together as a group to develop a solution. I believe that if we had used some Team Building skills before the result could have been better.