Six Thinking Hats

Individuals and teams will learn to separate thinking into six categories for analyzing issues and generating new ideas.

Learn how to separate emotion from facts, the positive from the negative and critical thinking from creative thinking. You will leave the program with tools you can apply immediately.

Who needs Six Thinking Hats?

• Anyone who wants to think clearly, objectively, and creatively.
• Project Managers
• Meeting Facilitators
• Team Leaders & Members
• Trainers & Consultants
• Engineers
• Marketing Professionals
• New Product Developers

• A marked tendency to identify themselves as thinkers
• Confidence that they have the ability to cope with and improve their environments
• Competencies enabling them to solve problems including the ability to:
  1. identify a problem
  2. propose alternative solutions
  3. predict the consequences of each alternative
  4. assess the usefulness of each set of consequences
  5. select the best alternative
  6. implement it
  7. evaluate it
• Competencies enabling them to identify and pursue opportunities including the ability to:
  1. develop a habit of perceiving events and situations as opportunities
  2. identify the benefits/desired outcomes of pursuing each opportunity
  3. identify the risks/dangers of pursuing each opportunity
  4. design ways to minimize risks and dangers
  5. select opportunities based on weighing the benefits against remaining risks
  6. design plans for pursuing a selected opportunity
  7. assess and reevaluate plans in progress
• Competencies enabling them to think cooperatively including the ability to:
  1. understand and take on the facilitator role in a group meeting
  2. identify and articulate other people s points of view
  3. devise an agenda and demonstrate the necessary discipline to follow it
  4. provide for equal participation among group members

White Hat - calls for information known or needed.

Red Hat - signifies feelings, hunches, and intuition.

Yellow Hat - symbolizes values and benefits and why something may work.

Black Hat - is judgment-the devil's advocate or why something may not work.

Green Hat - focuses on creativity: possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas.

Blue Hat - is used to manage the thinking process.

Results at Organizations Using Six Thinking Hats:

• A division of Siemens reduced product development time by 50 .
• ABB was able to reduce a series of multinational project meetings from 30 days to 2 days.
• After learning de Bono creative thinking skills, fights between miners at a South African mine were reduced from 210 per month, to 4.

• DATT (Direct Attention Thinking Tools)
• DATT (Direct Attention Thinking Tools) Certification
• Focus on Facilitation
• Focus on Facilitation Certification
• Lateral Thinking
• Lateral Thinking Certification (Train-the-Trainer)
• Six Thinking Hats Certification (Train-the-Trainer)