Academic Leadership

Academic Leadership: Fundamental Building Blocks

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6.2 Being a Critical Observer

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You will remember that as the ‘behavioural control room’ (Vilkinas and Cartan 2001), the

role of the Integrator essentially has two parts – reflective learner and critical observer.

OBJECTIVE

The objective of this activity is to develop the critical

observer part of the Integrator role.

It is easy to underestimate the difficulty of standing back from oneself to listen and

learn about yourself. The Johari window, first developed in 1955 by Joseph Luft and

Harry Ingham (Luft, 1970), has been used for many years to assist people in developing

their self-awareness, i.e., in learning how to learn about themselves.

Note that most of the sheet is given over to the Arena and Facade.