The six thinking hats method involves a group wearing the same colored hat to designate their thinking role. The colors are: blue for control, yellow for positive thinking, black for critical thinking, white for facts, green for creativity, and red for emotions. Each hat represents a different perspective or thinking style that the group will use to analyze ideas. The document outlines questions the group can consider from each thinking hat's perspective to fully evaluate potential ideas.
The six thinking hats method involves a group wearing the same colored hat to designate their thinking role. The colors are: blue for control, yellow for positive thinking, black for critical thinking, white for facts, green for creativity, and red for emotions. Each hat represents a different perspective or thinking style that the group will use to analyze ideas. The document outlines questions the group can consider from each thinking hat's perspective to fully evaluate potential ideas.
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6 thinking hats - an innovation exercise during which people think together.
The six thinking hats method involves a group wearing the same colored hat to designate their thinking role. The colors are: blue for control, yellow for positive thinking, black for critical thinking, white for facts, green for creativity, and red for emotions. Each hat represents a different perspective or thinking style that the group will use to analyze ideas. The document outlines questions the group can consider from each thinking hat's perspective to fully evaluate potential ideas.
The six thinking hats method involves a group wearing the same colored hat to designate their thinking role. The colors are: blue for control, yellow for positive thinking, black for critical thinking, white for facts, green for creativity, and red for emotions. Each hat represents a different perspective or thinking style that the group will use to analyze ideas. The document outlines questions the group can consider from each thinking hat's perspective to fully evaluate potential ideas.
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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