Six Thinking Hats a brilliant process to conduct effective meetings. This methodology forces all participants to present diverse views.. positive, negative, creative and others
TM meetings 50 th meetings How do you feel excited; not excited; interested; looking forward to the meeting
Raise your hand if you like meetings in the office Do you make decision ? Do you make group decisions ?
70% of the meetings scenario Do you dread meetings Raise your hand if you are in category 1 Raise your hand if you have ever felt like in second comment
Where can you use these techniques Meetings Group discussions Personal decision making
Benefits: Save time Known to save time wherein 2 days meetings have been cut to 2 hours with better results. Known to save time wherein 30 days meetings have been cut to 2 days with better results P & G; Seimens and many large institutions use 6 TH
Enhance creativity Structured and one emotions thinking All are expected to provide input or say o comments All are forced to think I different emotions hence new ideas flow in
Improve performance Structured thinking No time wasting Think in the same direction No criticism.
Process 6 styles of thinking based on the emotions Hats represent emotions However you are still detached from emotions. Rather than saying give me your emotional or negative view; you replace that wear Red hat or Black hat
White: ( Neutrality ) - what information is available, what are the facts? Red: ( Feeling ) - instinctive gut reaction or statements of emotional feeling (but not any justification) Black : ( Negative judgment ) - logic applied to identifying flaws or barriers, seeking mismatch Yellow: ( Positive Judgment ) - logic applied to identifying benefits, seeking harmony Green: ( Creative thinking ) - statements of provocation and investigation, seeing where a thought goes Blue: ( Process control ) - thinking about thinking
This covers facts, figures, information needs and gaps. "I think we need some white hat thinking at this point..." means Let's drop the arguments and proposals, and look at the data base."