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260 LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE<br />

FIGURE 6.1 FLUSHING OUT FEELINGS<br />

EXPRESSED<br />

UNEXPRESSED<br />

2<br />

Known to self,<br />

and known to others<br />

1<br />

Known to self<br />

and expressed<br />

3<br />

Not known to self,<br />

but known to others<br />

4<br />

Not known to self and<br />

not known to others<br />

because often people don’t know how they feel, so besides being<br />

invisible to you their feelings are also unknown to them.<br />

What can help <strong>with</strong> this process is a modification of what is<br />

called the Johari Window, fi rst conceived in 1955 by Joseph Luft<br />

and Harry Ingram. It is a visualization (see Figure 6.1) that helps<br />

to give voice to people’s feelings, including those that are known<br />

and expressed as well as those that are unknown and unexpressed.<br />

What to do depends on the expression of feelings and whether or<br />

not they are known.<br />

QUADRANT 1: FEELINGS ARE KNOWN TO SELF<br />

AND EXPRESSED<br />

• Listen for the “blinking words”: The blinking words<br />

are the feelings; they have the emotional content. You want<br />

your ear to be sensitized to them as though they are flashing<br />

brightly. Consider: “I am so frustrated <strong>with</strong> the project, I<br />

don’t know what to do next.” “Frustrated” is the blinking<br />

word. You can hear how it stands out in the sentence.<br />

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