Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Insights & De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats Sue Burgin, Jim Chapman July 2015
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Insights & De Bono’s
Six Thinking Hats
Sue Burgin, Jim Chapman
July 2015
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
The Four Insights Colour
Energies
On a good day… Competitive
Demanding Determined Strong-willed Purposeful
Sociable Dynamic Demonstrative Enthusiastic Persuasive
Caring Encouraging
Sharing Patient
Relaxed
Cautious Precise
Deliberate Questioning
Formal
Discovery Learning Guide – The Key to Personal Effectiveness – Section 1.6
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Insights and Change
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The Four Insights Colour
Energies On a bad day…
Aggressive Controlling Driving Overbearing Intolerant
Excitable Frantic Indiscreet Flamboyant Hasty
Docile Bland
Plodding Reliant
Stubborn
Stuffy Indecisive Suspicious
Cold Reserved
Discovery Learning Guide – The Key to Personal Effectiveness – Section 1.6
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De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats
Jim Chapman
July 2015
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Meetings – Don’t you just love them
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Edward De Bono’s
six thinking hats
• Action and problem solving in one meeting!
• Edward De Bono’s ‘6 thinking hats’ tool allows
a group to look at a topic from a variety of
perspectives (instead of here is the problem,
this is the solution)
• By wearing different hats we can direct our
thinking in specific ways
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Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats
• We give 4 minutes to each hat. Avoids prematurely jumping to a negative conclusion, or making a subjective decision without sufficient information
• Everyone must wear the same hat at the same time
• Someone must scribe and someone must keep time – time keeper and note taker
• We have some topics to cover or you can do your own
• This is the sequence:
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I’ve done it loads of times!
• Worked every time! Many examples
• Staff have fun and buy into it
• Stays on track – even with awkward staff
• They own any actions
• Its bottom up
• 30 – 40 minutes well spent
• Something for everyone! - Insights
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Possible issues to look at using hats
• “Improvement capability” in the NHS
• Spreading Microsystems across the NHS
• Involving service users / patients in their care
• Parking availability at STH
• A smoke free STH
• NHS funding crisis
• Choose your own?
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