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What is Six Thinking Hats?
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6 hats promotes and facilitates structure and efficiency, and helps significantly reduce the misunderstandings that occur when emotional, factual, and logical input is not identified as being of these distinct types.
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How do wefeel?
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What are thebad things?
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What do weknow, what dowe want to find
out?
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What greatideas do we
have?
3What are thegood things?
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How are wegoing to
organise our thinking?
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The following is distillation of the 6 hats...
White hat (neutral, objectivity):Hard data. Facts and figures. Questions/suggestions about what data to collec
Red hat (emotional, intuitive): Hunches. Feelings. Soft data. Emotional stuff discussing something that makes the discussion participant angry, etc.)
Black hat (logical negative): Caution. Rationale for not doing something, whwrong, legal limits, etc.
Yellow hat (logical positive): Savings. Benefits. Advantages. Usually forwar
Green hat (creative): Proposals, suggestions, ideas, alternatives, provocationsinteresting in an idea.
Blue hat (meta-hat): Control, organization of the discussion process and usehats. Blue hat use can suggest a particular structure to a discussion ("2 minuthat, then 5 minutes of yellow, then..."). Or on-the-fly stuff - "we seem to be smuch more time on red hat than I expected - anyone else agree?" Blue hat caused for conclusions.
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Ingredients in
Thinking
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WHITE HAT THINKING
Facts:Identifying and communicating all of the relevant data andfacts, and to gather the necessary missing data for anyproject, problem, decision, concern or opportunity in order to
arrive at a sound conclusion
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Y ELLOW HATTHINKINGPositive Value :Identifying and finding thevalue, feasibility and benefits in ideas, proposals,suggestions or potential solutions. A mind shift from theidea killer habit of knocking ideas down as soon asthey are suggested.
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B LACK HAT THINKING
Difficulties: Identifying all of the logical
reasons why something might not work. To use thisvaluable information to design a project planthat will eliminate the faults before taking action.Ensuring success .
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GREEN HAT THINKING
Creative Thinking: G enerating ideas,possibilities and alternatives.Expanding your
options;the world of the possible.G
enerating ideasthat will overcome the difficulties pointed out in blackhat thinking. Designing your way into the future
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RED HAT THINKING
Intuition: C ommunicating your hunches, gutinstincts or feelings about a subject. It also enables themind to move beyond initial reactions and get down tothe productive business of exploring a subject much
more thoroughly
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B LUE HAT THINKING
Process Control: Thinking about
your thinking before doing your thinking. Managing thethinking process. C reating thinking plans that
will cover the appropriate thinking bases in order toachieve your desired end result .