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Six Thinking Hats

Presented by:

1. Mr. Ritesh 2. Mr. Akhilesh 3. Mr. Devang

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Six Thinking Hats

●An important and powerful technique.

● It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives.

● This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style.

● Helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation.

This tool was created by Dr. Edward de Bono.

Looking at a Decision From All Points of View

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When you put on your white hat, you focus directly on the information – what is available, what is needed, and how it might be obtained. Proposals, opinions, beliefs and argument should be put aside.

Question you might ask while wearing your white hat include:

1.What information do we have here ?2.What information is missing ?3.What information would we like to have ?4.How are we going to get the information ?

The White Hat

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The red hat covers intuition, feelings, hunches and emotions.

Usually, feelings and intuition can only be introduced into a discussion if they are supported by logic.

The Red Hat

Putting on the red hat, you express what you feel about the project. Examples:

1. My gut-feeling is that this will not .2. I don’t like the way this is being done.3. This proposal is terrible.4. My intuition tells me that prices will fail soon.

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Wearing the black hat you to consider your proposal critically and logically. The black hat is used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, or the system is use.

The Black Hat

Wearing your black hat you might consider the followings:

1. Cost. ( This proposal would be too expensive.)2. Regulation. ( I don’t think that the regulation would allow.)3. Design. ( This design might look nice, but it is not practical.)4. Materials. ( This material would mean high maintenance.)5. Safety issues. ( What about handrails?)

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The yellow hat is for optimism and the logical positive view of things. Wearing the yellow hat allows you to look for benefit, feasibility and how something can be done.

The Yellow Hat

Question you might ask while wearing the yellow hat include:

• What are the benefits of this option?• Why is this proposal preferable?• What are the positive assets of this design?• How can we make this work?

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The green hat is specifically concerned with creating new ideas and new ways of looking at things.

• Creating thinking • Additional alternatives • Putting forward possibilities and hypotheses• Interesting proposal • New approaches • Provocation and changes

The Green Hat

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The blue hat is the overview or process control. It is for organizing and controlling the thinking process so that it becomes more productive.

The Blue Hat

Wearing your blue hat, You might:

• Look not at the subject itself but at the “thinking “about the subject.• Set the agenda for thinking • Suggest the next step in the thinking, “I suggest we try some green hat thinking to get some new ideas”• Ask for a summary, conclusion, or decision, “Could we have a summary of your views?”

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Benefits Of The Six Thinking Hat

Improve Exploration

Save Time

Improve Creativity & Innovation

Foster Collaborative Thinking

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Which hat is? – my ideas

1 “I am unhappy with the merger”

2 “Our product is the most expensive on the market”

3 “It will increase our profile in the community”

4 “Low staff morale is causing high attrition”

5 “We tried that and the staff are not supportive”

6 “It would be easy to implement a new logo”

7 “We could offer two for the price of one

8 “I am concerned about staff morale

9 “Are we ready to commit to a decision?”

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