Six thinking hats

Six thinking hats

A group of people, who use the six thinking hats method, wear the same hat at the same time.

The blue hat Goals

Goal # 1

What idea will you think about?

Goal # 2 How long time will you think at each thinking hat?

Goal # 3 How many contributions will each person make at each hat?

The yellow hat

Positive thinking

What is good about this idea?

What are the 3 biggest advantages of this idea?

1.

2.

3.

The black hat Critical thinking

What is not good about this idea?

What are the 3 biggest problems / disadvantages of this idea?

1.

2.

3.

The white hat

Facts

What objective information do you have about the relevance of this idea?

What does this information tell you?

What other information do you need?

The green hat Creative thinking

What can you do to improve the idea?

What alternatives do you see?

The red hat

Emotional thinking

What do you like about this idea?

What do you not like about this idea?

The blue hat Control thinking

What are your conclusions?

What decisions will you make?

What is your plan?

Sources of inspiration http://www.adb.org/documents/information/knowledge-solutions/wearing-six-thinking-hats.pdf http://www.debonogroup.com/six_thinking_hats.php De Bono, Edward: Six thinking hats. http://debrakidd.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/in-defence-of-the-six-thinking-hats-2/ http://www.educationplanner.ca/files/Six%20Thinking%20Hats.pdf http://www.entrepreneur.com/management/operations/article207490.html http://www.foodsec.org/DL/course/shortcourseFK/en/pdf/trainerresources/PG_SixThinkingHats.pdf http://www.managementexchange.com/blog/so-you-want-be-creative-genius http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/how_we_do_it_three_executives_reflect_on_strategic_decision_making http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/taking_the_bias_out_of_meetings http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/strategy/taking_the_bias_out_of_meetings http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm http://psp.sagepub.com/content/early/2012/03/15/0146167212436611.abstract http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/using-6-thinking-hats-better-design http://www.toolshero.com/six-thinking-hats-de-bono/ http://www.usingmindmaps.com/support-files/six-thinking-hats.pdf http://www.venturecup.dk/media(77,1033)/Creative_Thinking_-_Presentation.pdf http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x49-xoqkyM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdC3nkYzj5k