Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
De Bono’s
Six Thinking Hats
Jim Chapman
Jun 2015
Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust
Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats
• Action and problem solving in a 1h meeting
• Edward De Bono’s ‘6 thinking hats’ tool allows
a group to look at a topic from a variety of
perspectives (instead of here is the problem,
this is the solution).
• By wearing different hats we can direct our
thinking in specific ways.
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Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats
• We give 4 minutes to each hat. Avoids prematurely jumping to a negative conclusion, or making a subjective decision without sufficient information
• Everyone must wear the same hat at the same time
• Someone must scribe and someone must keep time – time keeper and note taker
• We have some topics to cover or you can do your own
• This is the sequence:
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First green hat – using fresh eyes
• See the issue through the eyes of someone else – what matters to them? What do they need?
• Draw a random profession out of the envelope and spend a minute on it – do this four times
• Use these ideas as a stepping stone onto a new green hat – now focusing back on the issue
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I’ve done it many times!
• Worked every time!
• Staff have fun and buy into it
• Stays on track – even with awkward staff
• They own any actions
• Its bottom up
• 30 – 40 minutes well spent
• Great on the Microsystem improvement ramp
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5P Assessment
Theme
Global Aim
Change Ideas
Specific Aim
Measures Six Hats
The Dartmouth Microsystem
Improvement Ramp
Effective Meeting Skills
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Microsystems - issues
• Implementing a Microsystem culture into your NHS organisation
• Getting started coaching a team
• Spreading Microsystems across the NHS
• Selling MS to already stretched and not always willing NHS staff
• Involving service users / patients in MS
• The UK’s electoral system
• Parking availability at SHU
• Choose your own
• A smoke free NHS
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