M.Ed Advanced Psychology's Topic - Technique of Creativity'Six Thinking Hats ppt

Subject: Advanced Psychology

M.Ed 2014-15Project : Six Thinking Hat

By Edward De Bono

What is creativity?

Introduction

The Almighty God, the creator of the universe, is

the supreme mind who possess the finest

creative abilities. He has created all of us and all

that is revealed in nature.

Therefore, everyone is blessed with creative

abilities.

Definition:

According to Oxford English Creativity means to

use/involve one’s own thought or imagination to

create something new as work of art, an

invention.

Creativity doesn’t create something out of

nothing but rather re-combines ideas that already

exists.

Meaning

When we combine the above definition we can say that creativity

involves the generation of new ideas or the re-combination of known

elements into something new by providing valuable solutions to a

problem.

Creativity is not the product but the process.

Creativity involves both conscious and sub conscious thinking.

Creativity thinking can be both systematic and unsystematic.

It brings change in many situations.

Techniques

Techniques for thinking up solutions to problems are

called creativity techniques or creativity methods.

Creativity techniques are the methods that encourage

creative actions, whether in arts or science. They focus on

a variety of aspects of creativity, including techniques for

idea generation, divergent thinking, methods of re-

framing problems, changes in the affective environment.

Creative techniques are very useful in the design process,

generating large amount of ideas in a short time.

Techniques of creativity

Problem solving

Six thinking hats

Brain storming

Think outside the box

Checklist

Business war games

5 Ws

Coaching

The Originator of Six Thinking Hats

Objective of this technique

Define parallel thinking

Identifying each of the six hats

Learn how to ask a good question

Apply six hats method to problem solving

The Basics

Position of the hats

White Hat

With this thinking hat you focus on the data available, look at the information

you have and see what you can learn from it. Look for the gaps in ur

knowledge and either try to fill them and take an account of them. This is

where you analyse past trends and try to hypothesize from historical data.

Red Hat Wearing the red hat, you look at the problem using intuitions, gut reaction

and emotion. And you also try to understand the responses of the people who

do not fully know your reasoning.

Black Hat Using black hat thinking, look at all the bad points of the decision. You look at

it cautiously and defensively. You try to see why it might not work. This is

important because it highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows you to

eliminate them, alter them and counter them.

Yellow Hat

The yellow hat helps you to think positively it is the optimistic view point that

helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and value in it. It helps you to

keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.

Green HatIt stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative solutions to a

problem. It is a free way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. A

whole range of creativity tools can help you here.

Blue Hat Blue hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people in a

chairing meeting. When running into difficulties because ideas are running

dry, they may be directed by green hat thinking and they may even consult a

black hat.

Procedure

The directors of a property company are looking at whether they should construct a new office building. The economy is doing well and the amount of vacant office space is reducing sharply. As a part of their decision, they decide to use six thinking hats technique during a meeting.

Looking at the problem, with white hat they analyse the data which they have, they examine the trend in vacant office space which shows a sharp reduction. They anticipate by the time the office work would be completed there will be severe shortage of office space.

With the red hat thinking some of the directors think that the proposed building looks quite ugly while it would be highly cost effective. They worry that people would not like to work in it.

When they think with the black hat they worry that government projections may be wrong. There could be a downfall in the economy. If the building is not attractive then the companies will choose to work in another better looking building at the same rent.

With the yellow hat, however if the economy holds up and

their projections are correct the company stands to make

a great deal of money and if they are lucky maybe they

could sell their building before the next downturn or give

it on lease for higher rent.

With the green hat thinking, they consider whether they

should change the design to make the building more

pleasant. Perhaps they could build prestigious office that

people would want to rent in any economic climate.

The blue hat has been used by the meeting chair to move

among the different thinking styles. He or she may have

needed to keep other members of the theme from

switching styles or from criticizing other people points.

Advantages

Improves exploration

Saves time

Improves creativity and innovation

Fosters collaborative behaviour

One learns to think in parallel with other team members

Keeps egos and turf protection in check

Reduces adversarial approach in all interactions

One can lead and conduct more effective and productive

meetings

Disadvantages

At least you need time to show your group

member how to do it and explain to them, then

need some practice.

For a long term it is good but if you want to solve

a problem for your group meeting in short term

then is not really good.

Conclusion

Six thinking hats is an important thinking tool.

It is used to look at decision from a number of important

perspective.

Many successful people think from a very rational and

positive view point.

It forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style

and helps you to get more rounded view of a situation.

It is one of the successful technique