SIX THINKING HATS®
Reaching sound decisions: fast, smart, efficient, together
Why Six Thinking Hats®?
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Imagine it. Your team has the skills and techniques they need to make the best decision. Fast. Smart. Efficient.
It’s not impossible. In fact, it’s simple. Once they know how. That’s where Dr. Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® comes in. This systematic method of thinking brings rapid results - reaching better decisions in less time. More light, less heat, in any meeting. It is a simple, effective technique that helps you and your meetings be far more productive. You and meeting participants can learn how to separate thinking into six distinct categories. Each category is identified with its own coloured metaphorical “thinking hat.” By mentally wearing and switching “hats,” you can easily focus or redirect thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting. |
Who should attend?
Target Audiences
Everyone who would like to focus thinking and bring a clear structure to help you plan and manage any discussion. Helpful for individuals, it becomes even more powerful in meetings where everyone brings shared focus on one aspect of the discussion at a time. Typical participants include:
Everyone who would like to focus thinking and bring a clear structure to help you plan and manage any discussion. Helpful for individuals, it becomes even more powerful in meetings where everyone brings shared focus on one aspect of the discussion at a time. Typical participants include:
- Project and strategy teams
- Departmental managers and their team
- Innovative teams who work creatively
- Individual contributors and entrepreneurs
- Teams working in highly competitive fields
- Hold critical meetings without emotions or egos making poor decisions
- Increase productivity within your team and become more effective
- Make creative solutions more common in your decision making process
- Maximize clear, effective thinking and idea development in meetings
- Get to the right solution quickly with a shared vision
- Turn seemingly insoluble problems into real opportunities
How will you benefit?
Benefits for you
- Improve your thinking agility
- Boost your skills to lead and guide group discussion
- Orchestrate meetings and discussions that are fast, productive, inclusive and constructive
- See more clearly what is helping or hindering meeting discussion
- Learn how to turn disagreements into positive contributions
- Move people from discussion to action
- Meetings are shorter and more productive
- Reduces conflict and debate
- People can think clearly and objectively
- Make thorough evaluations
- Generate better ideas
- Meetings are more effective
How will you learn?
1. Set the base
Pre-workshop questionnaire and inputs to reflect on meeting effectiveness and identify questions and relevant meeting topics to work on during the workshop.
2. Push the pace
A one day interactive, tailored and energising Six Thinking Hats® workshop is filled with short inputs & examples, practice, coaching and feedback. Participants will work in small groups with continual support from a certified de Bono trainer.
Dr. Edward de Bono personally developed the course materials, and each delegate is supplied with a comprehensive workbook as an ongoing resource.
Dr. Edward de Bono personally developed the course materials, and each delegate is supplied with a comprehensive workbook as an ongoing resource.
3. Apply & Thrive
Follow-up access to refresher modules, tips, newsletter and social media groups.
The Bottom Line
1. Revolutionise group problem-solving, save time and reach decisions quickly
2. Become more objective when evaluating ideas
3. Facilitate productive and effective meetings
2. Become more objective when evaluating ideas
3. Facilitate productive and effective meetings