6 Thinking Hats

Constructive Informative

Intuitive

Cautious

Creative

Reflective
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Approaches .
Dr. Edward de Bonos 6 Thinking Hats

What are the facts?

What is wrong with this?

What do I feel about this?

What thinking is needed? What are the good points? What new / different ideas are possible?
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Unique Features of 6 Thinking Hats

Changes Adversarial Thinking into Parallel Thinking

but are not used to categorise people !

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Nestles Feedback
"Six Hats is a simple, yet powerful tool that can be learned rapidly & used immediately to achieve long-lasting results. Six Hats has helped our product development group to generate ideas quickly, evaluate them efficiently, & implement action plans effectively." - Laura Donahue, Nestl
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Varieties of Thinking skills

Analytical

Critical Strategic Creative Focused Open & Constructive

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White Hat
This covers data, facts & figures.

Information needs and gaps.

Things to be put down on a white paper.

"I think we need some white hat

thinking at this point..." means Let's

drop the arguments and proposals, &

look at the data base."
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Where can you find data and knowledge?

Technological and working documentation Knowledge in the specialists memory Organisational framework and positions assignment Industrial technologies and businessprocesses

Existing Information

Drafts, maps, sketches

Partial automation of earlier software generation

Normativelegal information Existing electronic archives and databases

Red Hat
The red hat allows the thinker to put forward an intuition, feelings & emotions without any need to justify it

"Putting on my red hat, I think this is a terrible

proposal." Feelings and intuition can only be introduced into a discussion if they are supported by logic. The red hat gives full permission to a thinker to put forward his or her feelings on the subject at the moment.
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Six Hats of Thinking

Black Hat

The black hat is used to point out why a suggestion does not fit : the facts, the available experience, the system in use, or the policy that is being followed.

The black hat must always be logical and

non- emotional. Helps discrimination & caution.
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Six Hats of Thinking

Yellow Hat

Why something will work and how it will offer benefits , advantages & +ves. It can be used in looking forward to the results of some proposed action, but can also be used to find something of value in what has already happened.
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Six Hats of Thinking

Green Hat
Hat of Creativity
Alternatives New proposals

What is interesting
Innovations Altogether New

Beyond habits
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Six Hats of Thinking

Blue Hat
Looking from top

This is the overview or process control hat. It looks not at the subject itself but at the 'thinking' about the subject.
Hat of Control

"Putting on my blue hat, I feel we should do some more green hat thinking at this point." In technical terms, the blue hat is concerned with meta-cognition

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Goal: Transformative Learning Process

Relationships

Practitioner

Performance
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The 9 dot problem

Connect all 9 dots Use only 4 lines Do not lift your pencil from the page after you begin drawing

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Solution to the 9 dot problem

Sometimes you have to think outside the box!

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Creative Process Model

Verification

Insight

Incubation

Preparation
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To Change beliefs
Thinking OUT of the BOX is NOT Enough We Have to GET OUT of the BOX ALL TOGETHER!

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Six Hats of Thinking

Examples of Thinking with the 6 Hats

The Parking place does not offer enough space------------- I think this agency is very expensive----------------------- How many of our colleagues speak German?----------------

This method does not work----------------- Are we heading in the right direction?-------------- Three months from now there will be a turn around...------- Could we now come to a final conclusion ? ----------------- These are the alternatives we have-------------------

What can we do to improve the situation?-----------------18

Thanks to Members of NTPC for participation & your keen interest & sincere efforts.

Valuevarsity Business School

Prof. Scheel Shenoy Director - Academics
e-mail: director@valuevarsity.org Website:www.valuevarsity.org
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