Six Thinking Hats

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Six Thinking Hats
A Framework For Parallel Thinking In Teams
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Todays Purpose

• Review the key points on the participant online
  overview
• Practice using the parallel thinking framework
• Answer questions
• Review applications

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Key Reminders

• The online overview is a general introduction to
  prepare you to participate
• It is not a training course in leading the use of
  the framework
• Use the Six Hat framework under the direction of
  your trained Six Thinking Hat facilitator (full 1
  day course)

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Results Around The World

• Since 1993 over 200,000 trained
• In use by many of the largest most successful
  organizations worldwide
• Works well in different cultures
• Applies across all levels disciplines

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The OriginatorDr. Edward de Bono

• M.D., Ph.D., (philosophy, medicine psychology),
  Rhodes scholar
• World-renowned consultant to business,
  governments, schools and industry
• Author of 62 books in 35 languages
• Originator of Six Thinking Hats, Lateral Thinking
  and Direct Attention Thinking Tools

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The Need To Improve

• Three main problems with our current methods of
  thinking in teams?
• Differing Perceptions
• Complexity
• Adversarial Approach

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Benefits Of The Six Thinking Hat Framework
Adversarial

• Parallel

Save Time Improve Exploration Improve Creativity
Innovation Foster Collaborative Thinking Move
from Problem Solving to Opportunity Identification
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Ninety Percent of all thinking mistakes by
adults are mistakes in perception, not mistakes
in logic. Dr. Edward de Bono
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Basics To Participate

• Six different imaginary hats to put on or off.
  Each hat is a different color and represents a
  different type or mode of thinking.
• We all wear the same hat (do the same type of
  thinking) at the same time.
• When we change hats, we change our thinking.

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Your Facilitators Role

• Define the focus of your thinking
• Plan the sequence and timing of the thinking
• Ask for changes in the thinking, if needed
• Handle requests from group for changes in
  thinking
• Form periodic or final summaries of the thinking
  for consideration by the team

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Your Role

• Follow the lead of your trained facilitator
• Stick to the hat (type of thinking) that is in
  current use
• Try to work within the time limits
• Contribute honestly fully under each hat

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Sequence Use Single Use

• Sequence Use - The Blue Hat leader designs a
  sequence for the team to follow, but may make
  adjustments as needed (without this method,
  we would be only Red or Black )
• Single Use - The Blue Hat leader may ask for the
  use of a single hat at a time as needed
• (it helps when you know you wont get argued All
  agree to say same thing, help each other.)

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• The important thing is to not stop questioning.
• Albert Einstein

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Example Exercise

Recently a public zoo began experimenting with a
new feeding method for many of the carnivorous
animals in the facility. Instead of giving them
simply meat at feeding times, they released live
prey into their large "natural setting" type
enclosures. In some cases an overabundance of
other small mammals in the zoo provided an on
site food source. The regular feeding times were
not altered. This experiment has caught the
attention of several zoos in North America.
Discuss this idea and see if you think it would
work here in the United States?
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Example Exercise

• Imagine that this proposal has been made
• 1. Blue - 1/2 min. 5. Green - 1 1/2 min.
• 2. White - 1 min. 6. Red - 3/4 min. 3.Yellow
  - 1 1/2 min. 7. Blue - 1 min.
• 4. Black - 1 1/2 min.

Its a good idea to do another (Yellow Black)
after getting some ideas.
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A "straw-man proposal" is a simple draft proposal
intended to generate discussion of its
disadvantages and to provoke the generation of
new, better, proposals. As the document is
revised, it may be given other edition names
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There is no such thing as Objective Discussion,
we all have opinions that we start with and using
the data we are trying to build a Case for
it.Normally the Problem is People will finally
agree on something that they were not bought in.

• 6-Hats is a framework for Thinking/Exploring in
  teams that
• Reduces argument / Drift
• Rapid Perception Sharing
• Promotes idea generation (safe time place)
• Reduces time
• Better Results

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