young entrepreneurs in action: discovering means of ... · 9/6/2013 · hats help you systemise...
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Young Entrepreneurs in
Action: Discovering Means of
Beating UnemploymentBeating Unemployment
Training Intro & Expectations
Who are we?
Jana Birgit Pavel
Training schedule
Expectations & our thinkingbased on Dr. Edward de Bono 6 Thinking Hats
Thinking process can be messy and complex!
– information & facts
– emotions
– caution, weaknesses, risks
Hats help you systemise
your thinking
– benefits, optimism, value
– creative ideas, alternatives
– process control, organising
thinking
Using the White Hat:
Types of Information
• Disputed information
• Other people’s feelings
• What information is available?
• What information would we like
to have?
What do we know?
What do we need to know?
How are we going to get the
needed information?
to have?
• What information do we need?
• What information is missing?
• How are we going to get the
missing information?
Using the Red Hat:
feelings, emotions,
intuition, hunches • Signals feelings
• No explanation needed
• Validity of feelings
• Ingredient in decision making
• States feelings right now
Feelings are often disguised as logic.
We mistrust feelings and emotions
because we cannot see what we are
dealing with.
Intuition may be based one
experience.
• States feelings right now
• Explores a range of feelings
• Allows qualifications
• Brief time allowed
Black Hat: caution,
weaknesses, risk • Notes ways that something
does not fit
• Looks at faults
• Looks at potential problems
Black hat is essential.
Is sometimes resented.
More natural than yellow hat.
Creates problems if overused.
• Speculates about the future
• Finds the errors of logic
• Makes assessments
• Must be applied thoroughly
Yellow Hat: Benefits,
Optimism, Value • Reasons for optimism
• Feasibility
• Benefits
• Values
Requires deliberate effort
Yellow/black hat is stronger than
objective judgment
• Competitive advantage
• Sense of potential
• Idea is weak but concept is
strong
Green Hat: Growth,
Alternatives, Creativity,
Ideas The green hat encourages:
• Making a time and place for creativity
• Creative effort
• Creative attitude
• Extracting concepts• Extracting concepts
• Making modifications
• Problem solving
• Generating possibilities
• Action possibilities
• Lateral thinking techniques
Blue Hat: Facilitating,
Organising, Process
Control • Managing the thinking
• Setting out the agenda
• Deciding next steps
• Defining the focus
• Looking at alternative definitions
• Taking requests
• Managing contingent agendas• Managing contingent agendas
• Maintaining discipline
• Monitoring the thinking
• Asking for summaries
• Noting conclusions
• Organizing decisions
• Interrupting the flow
Form groups of 4 with different nationalities
and let’s do some ‘hat thinking’
Put on your White Hatand focus on facts: what you know, what you want to know about
the TC?
Put on your Red Hatand think about your feelings that you have about the upcoming
week
Let’s switch to Yellow Hatand focus on all the benefits & value of this TC
Time for the Black Hatwhat could go wrong, is there a reason for pessimism?
Green Hatwhat can I contribute, how to make the TC more interesting and
creative?
Time for summary and Blue Hatwhich results of the ‘hat thinking’ shall our group present to the
rest?
Well done!!!