The
Six Thinking Hats®
Seminar
is a powerful one day "hands-on" seminar structured to help
business executives break out of their 'thinking ruts' using techniques
found in Dr. Edward de Bono's landmark book, Six Thinking Hats®.
Who
Should Attend:
This
seminar is designed for business people at all levels who conduct
and participate in business discussions and meetings, and whose input is
required for problem solving and decision making. It will be
particularly beneficial to individual contributors and teams working in
highly competitive environments. Many teams can make excellent use of
this approach: research and design, sales and marketing, quality
improvement, executive planning, recruitment, etc.
Seminar
Outcomes:
Participants
will learn to use different approaches to business problems. They will
explore all aspects of each situation and generate alternatives
that go far beyond obvious solutions. The process encourages people to
separate fact from opinion, to look fully at both positive and negative
opinions and to get hidden agendas that can sabotage any meeting on the
table. It stimulates their innate creativity and helps them discover how
to turn seemingly insoluble problems into real opportunities.
This
practical, skill-building program will help you replace one-dimensional
thinking with six-dimensional thinking. Thinking is a skill that is not
necessarily correlated to intelligence. As a skill, it can be learned,
developed, enhanced, and practiced. There are six types of thinking that
you unconsciously use every day. Each metaphorical hat represents one of
those six ways of thinking. A person wearing an imaginary White Hat
focuses on factual information, a Red Hat on emotions and intuition, a
Yellow Hat on positive perspective, a Black Hat on caution and risk, a
Green Hat on creativity, and a Blue Hat on control, overview, and
organization.
The
hats keep your different kinds of thinking separated, focused, and
controlled. They enable you to evaluate situations by consciously
switching in and out of the six thinking modes (hats). This process
teaches an individual to look at decisions and problems systematically.
You can use Six Hats alone or with a team.
Seminar
Format:
This
one-day seminar is most effective when intact workteams meet to address
current, real problems. Students work at team tables practicing on
company issues while learning to use skills presented in the seminar.
The tainer is a certified instructor for Dr. de Bono's Six Thinking
Hats and Lateral Thinking seminars.
Seminar
Outline
1: Introduction: Workshop overview. goals, introductions, assumptions, ground
rules.
2: Better Decisions
and Better Support: Discussion of the ideal roles and process of
effective meetings.
3:
The Phenomena of Creativity: How the brain likes to work creatively, and how we
can take advantage of this; pattern making, free association, role of
techniques.
4:
Practice with the Hats: Using current skills and methods, work through an
issue as a team and debrief how your approach works
.
5:
Introduce the Hats: Introduce
and practice how each hat is different, and how they work together.
6:
Practice: Use
Hats to work through an issue that participants are currently wrestling
with.
7:
Other Considerations and Practice: Discussion and practice of the
variety of ways the hats can be used.
8:
Full Length Exercise: Practice what we've learned in a full length
meeting.
9:
Other Creativity Techniques: Introduction and practice of additional techniques.
