Edwad de Bono

Six Thinking Hats

Speakers: Giedrius Žukauskas

Irena Sabaliauskienė

About me

Education

• since 2007 I have a master's degree in education management.

• since 2008 member of the Edward de Bono (dBT) community

• since 2009 certified trainer for Edward de Bono techniques (CoRT and SHT)

Profession

• since 2008 I run a small business training company (Ltd). Its growing up from then.

• since 2010 I have been working with business advising companies of the EU structural support issues.

• from 2012 I engaged in various business projects (new products development, production, etc.).

Personal

• I have a five and a half years old son, name Ąžuolas.

• I have won a green card and I lived in USA for 2 years

• I like to spend my leisure time with dad in his garden villa doing reconstruction work(replacing the roof, windows and so on)

About YOU

So I would like to know more about you

and your countries

About YOU

So I would like to know more about you (your team) and your country

1.Please fill out the forms (3 minutes).

2.Then present it to us (3 minutes).

Expectations

Expectations of this workshop

Expectations

1. Discuss your team expectations of this workshop for 3 min.

2. Write it down on a paper leaflet.

3. Come and put it on right place.

My tasks for this seminar

1. Introduce Edward de Bono's

thinking methods.

2. Delivery six thinking hats (SHT)

method (theory + practice).

3. Try to use the SHT in real situation.

4. Summarize your experience for the

seminar.

Time table

1. Worm up

2. dBT

methodology

3. SHT theory +

practice (3 hats)

4. SHT theory +

practice (3 hats)

5. Practice

6. Summarize

14.00 -15.30 h.

15.30

16.00 -17.30 h.

16.00

Thinking?

Learn how to THINK

• Edward Charles Francis Publius

de Bono was born in Malta on

19 May 1933.

• Dr Edward de Bono is one of

the very few people in history

who can be said to have had a

major impact on the way we

think. In many ways he could be

said to be the best known

thinker internationally.

• He has written numerous books

with translations into 34

languages.

How does it work?

� I'll give you some

principles .

� They could help you to

understand Edward de

Bono (dBT) methods

and new thinking

issues.

Simplicity

• There is nothing complex about Dr.

de Bono’s New Thinking methods.

• He emphasizes that we know and use

his methods instinctively.

Universality

• Dr. de Bono’s New Thinking methods

are used anywhere and everywhere

by people of all ages and abilities.

• He has rearranged their structure to

give them a new meaning and new

focus.

Practicality

• Dr de Bono’s New Thinking methods are designed to be applied; this is thefoundational principle of operacy.

• They are not theoretical perceptions.

• Instead, the obligation to effect ourthinking is built into each CoRT ‘tool’ and each ‘Hat’.

Portability

• As an ideal, Dr de Bono’s New

Thinking methods are infinitely

portable.

• This means they are sufficiently

flexible and powerful to be used in a

variety of situations.

Adaptability

• The ‘power’ of Dr de Bono’s New Thinking lies in its interactivity.

PMIGreen

HatResult

Dr Edward de Bono’s

New Thinking methods

• They focus on alternatives, what is

possible...

• They focus on exploring every

situation, listening, sharing,

empathy...

• They encourage the thinker to be

positive and constructive...

Dr Edward de Bono’s

New Thinking methods

• They are about the generation of a

forward-looking vision...

• They are concerned with design, the

generation of possibilities and

creativity.

The Six Thinking Hats(SHT)

The Six Thinking Hats comprise one of the five de Bono Thinking ‘frameworks’.

Six Hats Framework

The Six Thinking Hats (SHT)

• Dr de Bono defines a ‘framework’ as ‘an organizing and isolating device’.

• He goes on to explain that once the elements of the framework have been learned, understood and applied, they can be used to direct attention, explicitly, at any issue.

The Six Thinking Hats (SHT)

• The key value of this framework-based explicitness is that thinking is no longer characterized by drift, moving from one thing to another, at random.

Six Hats Framework

The Six Thinking Hats (SHT)

• Why de Bono use number 6 ?

• Why he call it hats, not tie ?

• Why use color ?

• How you can apply/use these hats?

Rules for using SHT

• ACCEPT ideas from others. Do not criticize or stop them. write all ideas or opinion on a sheet.

• Use ONE hat at ONE time. All members should have time/right to speak.

• Think DIRECTLY in mode / hat color your group are thinking. Be quick, short and concentrated.

Rules for using SHT

• If you or your team member do NOT have more ideas or opinion, leave it. USE IDEAS you HAVE at THIS MOMNET.

• Your thinking has to lead to the some RESULT. You have to know how you will use this RESULT.

30

Six Thinking Hats

Data and

Information

Feelings and

emotions

Benefits

Optimism

Caution and

Judgment

Creativity and

New IdeasThe thinking

process

YELLOW HAT

Benefits and Optimism

There three main purposes for using :

• Assessing value,

• Extracting benefits

• Making something work.

Purposes

Assessing value• First, we can use the Yellow Hat as part of an assessment and then

move to the Black Hat.

• The Yellow Hat part of the assessment involves listing the good

points and the benefits in the proposal or idea. The Black Hat then

examines the weak points, difficulties and dangers.

• Using the Yellow Hat in this way is part of making a judgment.

Purposes

Extracting benefits

• Yellow Hat can be used in a deliberate

effort to extract some benefit or good

points from something which has generally

been thought unworkable, unattractive or

potentially a ‘disaster’.

Purposes

Making something work• Yellow Hat can be used in an effort to make something

work. This is the constructive use of the Yellow Hat.

• For example, after the Green Hat has put forward

possibilities, the Yellow Hat may seek to give these a

solid basis. This is an active process, not just an

assessment.

Purposes

Your team need to write a report about this

SHT seminar to all partnership organizations

Use YELLOW HAT in a group .

• Looking for good points...

• Looking for benefits

Example

BLACK HAT

Caution and Judgment

The two main purposes for using the Black Hat are:

•To find weaknesses.

•To make assessments.

Purposes

• We may use the Black Hat early in

our exploration of an idea in order

to find the weaknesses.

• We find these weaknesses in order

to overcome them and put them

right.

Purposes

• When using the Black Hat to find

weaknesses, our goal is to improve

on the idea.

• We may use the Black Hat at the

end of an exploration to make an

assessment or judgment

Purposes

When we need the Black Hat to be

sure we are not making a mistake.

Example

•Your children

ask you give

them the boat

and allow

fishing.

Use BLACK HAT

Example

RED HAT

Feelings and emotions

Purposes

There are two main uses of the Red Hat:

• Making feelings known

• Making assessments and choices

Purposes

Making feelings known• At any moment we may signal that we are

putting on the Red Hat:

• "Putting on my Red Hat, I am unhappy about the demands the community is placing on our schools."

Purposes

Making feelings known

• We could have put forward the same feelings without the Red Hat. It is precisely the for-mality of labeling the feelings with the Red Hat, however, that makes the feelings more acceptable.

Purposes

Making assessments and choices

• The Black Hat checks out the idea.

After this Black Hat thinking, we then

use the Red Hat: What do I now feel

about the idea?

Purposes

Making assessments and choices

• The Black Hat checks out the idea.

After this Black Hat thinking, we then

use the Red Hat: What do I now feel

about the idea?

Purposes

Making assessments and choices• In choices and decisions, there is an

assessment of each alternative with both Yellow and Black Hats. When this has been done and the full picture is available, then it is up to the Red Hat to make the final choice.

Purposes

Making assessments and choices• What alternative do we like better? In

practice we may want to recheck with the Black Hat:

• This is the alternative I like–let me check to see whether anything terrible would happen if I went ahead.

What do you think about the weather in Lithuania?

Example

SHT PRACTICE

Movie clip

SHT PRACTICE

There is an idea is to create a

running track for a dog

SHT PRACTICE

Use YELLOW , BLACK and RED HATS to speak/make decision

about it.

Benefits

Optimism

Caution and

JudgmentFeelings and

emotions

Coffee brake

15.30Iki

16.00

WHITE HATData and

Information

The main purposes of the White Hat can be summarized in three questions:

• What information do we have?

• What information do we need?

• How do we get the information we need?

Purposes

• At the beginning of many thinking

tasks, we need information to get

started.

• We need information to start thinking.

Without information, there can be no

thinking.

Purposes

• For example, a business would do market research to see if there was a market for a new product.

• An archaeologist who has formed a theory about ‘Civilization x’ will look around to see if the available information and/or evidence supports the theory.

Example

You need to move to the city of Panevėžys

Use WHITE HAT in a group to collect information.

•What information do we have?

•What information do we need?

•How do we get the information we need?

Example

THE GREEN HAT

Creativity and new Ideas

�The main purpose of Green Hat thinking

is to be generative, productive and to

move thinking forward.

� Finding completely new ideas is only one

means of making progress.

Purposes

Look at main activities of Green Hat

thinking:

• Generating reactive ideas.

• Generating starting ideas.

• Generating further and better ideas.

• Generating new ideas.

Purposes

• Green Hat thinking can help when we need to

take an action, provide an explanation,

forecast an outcome or design something new

to fit a need.

• The overall question for Green Hat thinking

is: What ideas do we have?

Purposes

Your group need to get to airport tonight.

But there is no bus or train going late

time.

• What ideas do you have?

Example

Page � 66

THE BLUE HAT

The thinking process

• The Blue Hat is most often used at the beginning, in the middle and at the end of a thinking session. Some key words to describe the use of the Blue Hat are focus, purpose, agenda, observations, next step, outcome and summary.

Purposes

• With the Blue Hat we try to take

charge of our thinking in order to

organize what is going on. The Blue

Hat is like the conductor of the

orchestra who organizes what the

instruments are playing at any

moment.

Purposes

Three questions to ask with the Blue Hat are:

• What thinking has been done?

• What's our thinking goal?

• What is the next step to reach the goal?”

Purposes

Three questions to ask with the Blue Hat are:

• What thinking has been done?

• What's our thinking goal?

• What is the next step to reach the goal?”

Purposes

The five main uses include:• Defining focus and purpose.

• Setting out a thinking agenda.

• Making observations and comments.

• Deciding the next step.

• Defining outcomes and summarizing.

Purposes

Giedrius is hardly tractable child. You are parent and want to propose a new idea but you are afraid of judgment.

• How your group will organize an interview with him? What hats you will use for this purpose?

Examples

SHT PRACTICE

Movie clip

SHT PRACTICE

You must provide an explanation

why the cat did not listen

hedgehog.

SHT PRACTICE

Use WHITE , GREEN and BLUE hats to speak/make decision

about it.

Data and

Information

Creativity and

New Ideas

The thinking

process

The Hat definitionsrefer to sequences,one Hat being usedfor a specificpurpose thenfollowed by another.

Six Thinking Hats: Simple Sequences

Six Thinking Hats: Simple Sequences

Data and

Information

Creativity and

New Ideas

- explanation

Six Thinking Hats: Simple Sequences

Explanation introduces the matter of individual perception and a chance to resolve related matters.

•The White Hat asks: What do we know about the situation?•The Green Hat asks: What are the possible explanations?

Six Thinking Hats: Simple Sequences

- ChoiceBenefits

Optimism

Caution and

JudgmentFeelings and

emotions

Six Thinking Hats: Simple Sequences

•The Yellow Hat asks: What are the good points?•The Black Hat asks: What are the difficulties and dangers?•The Red Hat asks: How do we feel about this?

The final choice depends on our feelings, which means the application of our values—what we think is important.

Make a

decision by

using SHT

methods.

DESISION MAKING PRACTICE

DESISION MAKING PRACTICE

SITUATION:

• If your group want to get certificates and founding for participating in this seminar YOU MUST stay till 19.00 and do a test.

• No test - no founding from The Lifelong Learning Program.

• But you have other activities from 18.00h.

DESISION MAKING PRACTICE

• 10 minutes for decision

• 5 minutes for summarizing

experience in groups

• 2 minutes for report

Make a desition by using SHT methods.

Data and

Information

Feelings and

emotions

Benefits

Optimizm

Caution and

Judgement

Creativity and

New IdeasThe thinking

proces

Conclusions

Conclusions

Please find and write the answers

to the following questions

in your group (6 min)

Conclusions

Considering this 3 hours work shop Please find and write the answers to the following questions in your group:

A. Your feelings and emotions

B. Your understanding and main value

C.Your misunderstanding and uncertainty