Edward de Bonos SIX THINKING HATS en revlotuion i samarbejdet

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Edward de BonosSIX THINKING HATS- en revlotuion
i samarbejdet

• Af Lars Andreas Pedersen,
• manuskriptforfatter og kreativitetskonsulent,
• REDHAIR

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Grundregler for kreativitet

• Ingen kritik!
• Kombinér og byg videre for at forbedre hinandens
  idéer
• Kvantitet fremfor kvalitet
• (Frit efter Alex Osborn, BBDO 1942)

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Six Thinking Hats

• Tillader 360-graders tænkning
• Giver plads til og udnytter underprioriterede
  måder at tænke på
• Hattene færdselsregler til gruppens tænkning
• Parallel tænkning i stedet for debat/diskussion

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Hvad betyder hattene?

• Hvid hat fakta viden (hvad ved vi?)
• Sort hat begrænsninger (hvorfor dur idéen ikke?)
• Gul hat optimisme (hvad kan jeg lide ved idéen?)
• Rød hat følelser (hvad føler jeg?)
• Grøn hat kreativitet (hvad kan vi lave
  anderledes?)
• Blå hat overblik (hvordan kan vi opsummere?)

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The Hats (I)

• White Hat Facts
• Neutral and objective. The White Hat is concerned
  with objective facts and figures
• What do we know? What dont we know? Where do we
  obtain more info?
• Red Hat - Intuition
• Anger, rage, and emotions. The red hat gives the
  emotional view
• What do we feel? Whats our intuition trying to
  tell us?

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The Hats (II)

• Black Hat Problems
• Gloomy and negative. The Black Hat covers the
  negative aspects why the project cannot be done
  
• What wont work? Whats problematic?
• Yellow Hat Optimism
• Sunny and positive. The yellow hat is optimistic
  and covers hope and positive thinking
• Whats great? What makes us look forward to this?

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The Hats (III)

• Green Hat Creativity
• Grass, vegetation and abundant, fertile growth.
  The green hat indicates creativity and new ideas
• What if we do it differently? What if we turn the
  project upside down?
• Blue Hat Overview
• The color of the sky. The blue hat is concerned
  with control and the organization of the thinking
  process. And the use of the hats
• What type of thinking do we need more of? What
  should be next on our to do-list?

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How to Six Thinking Hats (I)

• Putting on a Hat
• a very deliberate process
• Take it seriously by taking control
• Frame the process well
• Use visual clues to gear the participants
  thinking

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How to Six Thinking Hats (II)

• Back off from your everyday knee-jerk thinking
• Role play as you go through the Hats
• Take an ego holiday
• Suspend yourself from the thinking
• Let the hats thinking speak to you
• Freewheel

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The basic rules of Brainstorming

• Criticism is ruled out
• Freewheeling is welcomed
• Hitch-hike for combination and improvement of
  ideas
• Go for quantity
• (Alex Osborn, advertising executive, BBDO
  1942)

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Drill Lets loosen up!

• Free-association on the word think
• Build on and on from association to association
• Dont think, just let your associations fly
• Let your brains neurotransmitters light up!
• Example
• THINK dumb nerd special interests expert
  ... etc.

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Drill Dreamline your project!

• Let go and dream. Think of a world with no
  boundaries, no financial restraints...only
  possibilities...
• In such a world, how will you change and
  radically improve your daily working condititons
  with The Six Thinking Hats technique?

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Drill Feel!

• Use your intuition. Stop making rational and
  logical sense. Listen to your body.
• What do you feel at this esxact moment? Whats
  your body and your intuition telling you? What
  are you feeling?

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Negative Brainstorm

• Combination of Brainstorm and reversal-technique
• With reversals one does the exact opposite of the
  obvious idea. Obvious ideas clichés
• Problems with traditional Brainstorm
• Our traditional thinking is critical
• We only think of obvious ideas
• Advantages of the Negative Brainstorm
• Forces us to use our inclination towards critical
  thinking

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How to Negative Brainstorm

• Define your problem
• Ex How do I raise interest for the project?
• Negativize your problem. Brainstorm on
• How do I lower interest for the project?
• Weird ideas will come a-plenty. Now try to
  positivize these ideas. Youll be surprised how
  many are workable!

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Ex Negative brainstorm

• Lower interest for vacuum cleaner
• expensive
• heavy bulky
• difficult to change bag
• vacuums poorly
• vacuums things to threads
• etc., etc.

• Highten interest for vacuum cleaner
• inexpensive
• easy to maneuver use
• easy to change bag
• vacuums all dirt
• Wont vacuum unwanted objects
• etc., etc.

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Closing thoughts

• How will we use Six Thinking Hats in our daily
  work in Kjaer Group?