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Six Thinking Hats®

Background Purpose Six Thinking Hats & Activities Group Exercise

Agenda

Background Group Decision Making or Thinking Model

Created by Dr. Edward De BonoAuthorExpertSpeakerProfessor (Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford)

Premise of Model: Look at problem from the same thinking perspective - parallel thinking.

Hats can be taken on and off - implies flexibility.

Address common pitfalls of group decision making.

My Hat it Has 4 Corners!

What is your view

from here?

What is your view

from here?

What is your view

from here?

What is your view

from here?

Parallel Thinking brings us to one window where together, we can see much more!

Rethinking Thinking

What’s Under the Hat? Time Saving Removal of Ego

One Thing at a Time

Gives Each Part of the Process Its Due

Aligns Thinking Process

Allows for role-playing

What the Hats Are Not

They are not categories of people;everyone can use all the hats

The are not a thinking description, but a thinking direction

They are not right or wrong

The 6 Hats White:White: Information Red: Intuitive

Black: Judgment Yellow: Benefits

Green: Creative Blue: Organizing

Review - Off the Hat Rack Blue: Organizing

White:White: Information

Red: Intuitive

Yellow: Benefits

Green: Creative

Black: Judgment

How to Pull a Bunny from a Hat

Use any hat as often as needed

Not necessary to use every hat

Generally time under each hat should be short

Requires discipline, i.e. people must play along

What Hat Should I Wear Today?

The order you used the hats (sequencing) is critical to their effective use; it can be preset or evolving

The blue hat should be used to help orchestrate the use of the other hats

Look at the qualities of the hat and the nature of the decision to dictate sequence

Thinking is messy, it ebbs and flows in different directions; people are not always aware of their thought processes

Six Thinking Hats uses parallel thinking to simplify the process of collaboration, keeps arguments at bay (Controversy with Civility) and moves groups toward their common purpose

This afternoon you will have a chance to put the 6 Thinking Hats into practice

How the 7C’s Can Use the 6 Hats

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