3. Six hats are???
Concept by Edward De Bono
Six hats of six colors for six types of thinking
Each hat identifies a type of thinking
Hats are the directions of thinking
Hats help a group use parallel thinking
You can “put on” and “take off” a hat
Used for
Problem solving
Strategic planning
Running meetings
Much more
4.
5. Summary of Six Hats…
Blue: Control & organization of thinking
White: Objective facts & figures
Red: Emotions & feelings
Yellow: Hope, positive & speculative
Green: Creativity, ideas & lateral
thinking
Black: Cautious & careful
7. BLUE HAT
• Thinking about the process
• Instructions for thinking
• The organization of thinking
• Control of the other hats
• Discipline and focus
8. Role of Blue Hat…
• Control of thinking & the process
• Begin & end session with blue hat
• Facilitator, session leader’s role
• Choreography
• open, sequence, close
• Focus: what should we be thinking about
• Asking the right questions
• Defining & clarifying the problem
• Setting the thinking tasks
10. WHITE HAT
• Neutral, objective information
• Facts & figures
• Questions: what do we know, what don’t
we know, what do we need to know
• Excludes opinions, hunches, judgments
• Removes feelings & impressions
• Two tiers of facts
• Believed Facts
• Checked Facts
12. RED HAT
• Emotions & feelings
• Hunches, intuitions, impressions
• Doesn’t have to be logical or consistent
• No justifications, reasons or basis
• All decisions are emotional in the end
16. GREEN HAT
• New ideas, concepts, perceptions
• Deliberate creation of new ideas
• Alternatives and more alternatives
• New approaches to problems
• Creative & lateral thinking
18. BLACK HAT
• Cautious and careful
• Logical negative – why it won’t work
• Critical judgment, pessimistic view
• Separates logical negative from
emotional
• Focus on errors, evidence, conclusions
• Logical & truthful, but not necessarily fair
19. Benefits of the Six Thinking
Hats?
Provides a common language
Experience & intelligence of each person
(Diversity of thought)
Use more of our brains
Helps people work against type, preference
Removal of ego (reduce confrontation)
Save time
Focus (one thing at a time)
Create, evaluate & implement action plans