>I also thought "Johari window" but an initial web search on the terms
>("unconscious Incompetence" "Unconcious Competence" led me to
>
>http://www.amsc.belvoir.army.mil/konopka.html
>
>where the author cites
>
>Kirkpatrick, D. L. (1971). A practical guide for supervisory training and
>development.Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
>
>as the source of the model.
Actually, Kenn (and no snottiness intended), as it turns out, it's not
worth much. I went to the site you found and read the article Konopka has
posted there. I can't speak for the entire paper but that portion of it
citing Donald L. Kirkpatrick is certainly questionable.
The salient portion of Konopka's article is the first sentence under the
heading "The Leadership and Learning Dilemma." There, Konopka writes:
"The leadership dilemma identified by Argyris, can be
understood by looking at Kirkpatrick's (1971) four levels
of training. The first level is "Unconscious Incompetence."
Kirkpatrick is known for four levels of training evaluation, not four
levels of learning. So, just to make sure, I gave Kirkpatrick a call. He
not only denied being the source of the
conscious-unconscious/competent-incompetent model, he claims never to have
heard of it before.
So, we're back to ground zero regarding the source of the model--and
Professor Michael Konopka probably ought to check his citation.
[Host's Note: Thank you Kenn for the reference, and thank you Fred for the
further followup on this. The mystery deepens! I, too, use the model
and would be very interested in the source. In the meantime, could
we also talk here about what the four stages are, whether they are
really stages, and how we use it? ...Rick]
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