Six Thinking Hats -Edward DeBono
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Six Thinking Hats-Edward DeBono
Goals of Six Thinking Hats
•Use Lateral thinking approach.
•Use creative thinking.
•Identify the Six Hats.
•Application of Six thinking hats in problem solving.
What is Lateral Thinking ?
•Most of the people think ahead looking for answers.
•The setback is caused when a solution is not found.
•Lateral thinking approach means to go sideways to find answers rather than going ahead.
•Its like crossing the road to choose a better path when there is an obstacle in the current path and move towards the destination.
So What Is The Purpose Of Six Hats ?
•It’s a simple idea to ‘Put On’ or ‘Put Off’ a particular Hat.
•Six colors of Hats are for Six types of Thinking.
•Hats help to use parallel thinking rather than a single track thinking.
Six Colours….
•White: It’s like paper. Its for Data, Information without argument. Basic Data. It also covers listening, questioning and finding information that we don’t have.
•Red: Emotions, feelings is a valuable part of it. It gives full permission to put forward your feelings, emotions without any explanation.
•Black: Used most of the time. Its logical and prevents making silly mistakes. It’s the ‘logical negative’. Its superior.
Six Colours….
•Yellow: It’s the ‘logical positive’. It makes you look forward as well as backward to conclude that a certain thing was or will be the reason for benefit.
•Green: Energy, fertility, branches symbolizes it. It’s the creativity hat. It covers ideas, suggestions, alternatives etc. It makes time & space available for creative thinking.
•Blue: It deals with control. Here the subject of thinking isn’t looked into but the thinking itself. It looks about thinking of the thinking. It’s used to get conclusions.
The Six Thinking Hats® Tool Kit
•Data, information, facts — known and needed.White hat O.P.V. tool — other people’s views.Range of accuracy tool.Plan to get necessary white hat data.
•Gut instinct. Intuition. Feelings. Range of feelings tool.Decision making tool.Idea sorting tools.Idea power tools.
Level of commitment tool.
•Risk assessment. Potential problems. Danger. Difficulties.
Find errors in logic.Speculate about the future.Note ways something does not fit. Set out to remove difficulties with green hat solutions.
•Benefits with rationale. The optimistic view. Plus points. Levels of feasibility tool. Competitive advantage screen.Sense of potential.
The Six Thinking Hats® Tool Kit
•Creativity. Ideas. Alternatives. Solutions. Possibilities.Top of the head tool idea generating tool.Random entry tool idea generating tool.Time and space for creative thinking.
•Process control. Managing the thinking.Focus tool.Thinking agenda development.Time management plan. Keep egos and argument in check.Action planning for next steps, roles, responsibilities,
time.
The Six Thinking Hats® Tool Kit
The Six Thinking Hats® Caters The Following.
• Team Leaders• Project Leaders• High Potential
Employees• Six Sigma Trained
Employees• Process Improvement
Teams• Business Unit Leaders• Engineers• Attorneys• R&D• Product Development• Sales
• Advertising• Marketing• IT• Finance• Customer Care And
Professionals.
WHO IS USING THE SIX THINKING HATS®?
The former president of Prudential, Rob Barbaro, used the Six Hats framework every day with his staff.
Siemens has over 35 certified Six Hats instructors working with employees throughout its European offices.
Boeing is just now taking up the hats in the United States.
The hats are also in use at Motorola, Fidelity Investments, National Semiconductor, and in many other companies.
Healthcare groups, financial institutions, chemical and pharmaceutical companies, manufacturers, and utilities .
At the time revision was published, over 100,000 people had been trained in the hats in 35 countries.
Key Benefits of the Six Thinking Hats
Works-they see results immediately.
Simple to learn, use, and implement.
Not dependent on others.Modifies behavior without
attacking it.Empowers.Can be used at all levels.Improves cross-cultural
interaction.
Reduces conflict.Encourages
cooperation.Enhances quality of
thinking.Supports other
change initiatives.Is available
worldwide.
Why Six Thinking Hats ??
Six thinking Hats methods offer far more value than a typical consultant’s methods.
Quite simply, Six Thinking Systems methods are designed to work in your environment to empower the organization.
It’s from the best selling author who has written over 67 books which have been translated into more than 38 languages, de Bono is regarded as the leading international authority in the field of critical, creative and innovative thinking and the teaching of thinking as a skill.
Words By Edward DeBono
Thinking performance, drives business performance.
Most mistakes in business are mistakes in thinking. Decisions are poorly thought through.
Risk factors are overlooked. Faulty information is taken as fact.
Ideas are killed far too early. Benefits aren’t built into solutions — customers have no idea why they should embrace your new
efforts. Changes backfire.
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