Blind Area
The second window, known as blind area has the meaning of some information about a person that is known by others in a group but is unknown by that person. To have this blind area individual to work in a group is not effective or productive as this person could be referred as ignorance about oneself. People who have a large area of blind area are normally 'thick-skinned'.
Group leaders and members might be able to take some responsibility to help a blind area individual by reducing their blind area or increasing their open area through giving sensitive comments and encouraging disclosure. Leaders should make non-judgmental comments and members' response to a person which it might reduce fear, hence it will encourage a person to increase their open area. In this window, care should be taken to avoid any emotional upset of a blind area individual or other members. As in this window, a blind area individual might tell the members about their thoughts, how they fell of the groups and also the issues which might lash out members. Sometimes, a blind area individual might be insensitive towards the comments from members or they do not want to listen to the comments. Or a blind area individual even respond to the comments in such way which cause the members to feel unwilling to continue give them comments. Members might get angry and leave as a blind area individual do not correct their actions when they receive comments from members. Things will get even worse if a blind area individual continue to act ineffectively because of one way communication (only from blind area individual to other members). (Chapman, 2014)
(Luft, 1984) |