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THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Six Thinking Hats
Presented by:
1. Mr. Ritesh
2. Mr. Akhilesh
3. Mr. Devang
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Six Thinking Hats
●An important and powerful technique.
● It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives.
● This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style.
● Helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation.
This tool was created by Dr. Edward de Bono.
Looking at a Decision From All Points of View
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
When you put on your white hat, you focus
directly on the information – what is
available, what is needed, and how it
might be obtained. Proposals, opinions,
beliefs and argument should be put aside.
Question you might ask while wearing your
white hat include:
1.What information do we have here ?
2.What information is missing ?
3.What information would we like to have ?
4.How are we going to get the information ?
The White Hat
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
The red hat covers intuition, feelings,
hunches and emotions.
Usually, feelings and intuition can only
be introduced into a discussion if they
are supported by logic.
The Red Hat
Putting on the red hat, you express what you feel about the
project. Examples:
1. My gut-feeling is that this will not .
2. I don’t like the way this is being done.
3. This proposal is terrible.
4. My intuition tells me that prices will fail soon.
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Wearing the black hat you to consider your
proposal critically and logically. The black hat is
used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit
the facts, the available experience, or the system
is use.
The Black Hat
Wearing your black hat you might consider the followings:
1. Cost. ( This proposal would be too expensive.)
2. Regulation. ( I don’t think that the regulation would allow.)
3. Design. ( This design might look nice, but it is not practical.)
4. Materials. ( This material would mean high maintenance.)
5. Safety issues. ( What about handrails?)
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
The yellow hat is for optimism and the logical
positive view of things. Wearing the yellow hat
allows you to look for benefit, feasibility and how
something can be done.
The Yellow Hat
Question you might ask while wearing the yellow hat include:
• What are the benefits of this option?
• Why is this proposal preferable?
• What are the positive assets of this design?
• How can we make this work?
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
The green hat is specifically concerned with
creating new ideas and new ways of looking at
things.
• Creating thinking
• Additional alternatives
• Putting forward possibilities and hypotheses
• Interesting proposal
• New approaches
• Provocation and changes
The Green Hat
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
The blue hat is the overview or process
control. It is for organizing and controlling
the thinking process so that it becomes more
productive.
The Blue Hat
Wearing your blue hat, You might:
• Look not at the subject itself but at the “thinking “about the subject.
• Set the agenda for thinking
• Suggest the next step in the thinking, “I suggest we try some green
hat thinking to get some new ideas”
• Ask for a summary, conclusion, or decision, “Could we have a
summary of your views?”
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Benefits Of The
Six Thinking Hat
Improve Exploration
Save Time
Improve Creativity & Innovation
Foster Collaborative Thinking
THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT
STUDIES AND RESEARCH
Which hat is? – my ideas
1 “I am unhappy with the merger”
2 “Our product is the most expensive on the market”
3 “It will increase our profile in the community”
4 “Low staff morale is causing high attrition”
5 “We tried that and the staff are not supportive”
6 “It would be easy to implement a new logo”
7 “We could offer two for the price of one
8 “I am concerned about staff morale
9 “Are we ready to commit to a decision?”
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6 thinking hats

  • 1. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH Six Thinking Hats Presented by: 1. Mr. Ritesh 2. Mr. Akhilesh 3. Mr. Devang
  • 2. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH Six Thinking Hats ●An important and powerful technique. ● It is used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. ● This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style. ● Helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation. This tool was created by Dr. Edward de Bono. Looking at a Decision From All Points of View
  • 3. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH When you put on your white hat, you focus directly on the information – what is available, what is needed, and how it might be obtained. Proposals, opinions, beliefs and argument should be put aside. Question you might ask while wearing your white hat include: 1.What information do we have here ? 2.What information is missing ? 3.What information would we like to have ? 4.How are we going to get the information ? The White Hat
  • 4. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH The red hat covers intuition, feelings, hunches and emotions. Usually, feelings and intuition can only be introduced into a discussion if they are supported by logic. The Red Hat Putting on the red hat, you express what you feel about the project. Examples: 1. My gut-feeling is that this will not . 2. I don’t like the way this is being done. 3. This proposal is terrible. 4. My intuition tells me that prices will fail soon.
  • 5. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH Wearing the black hat you to consider your proposal critically and logically. The black hat is used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, or the system is use. The Black Hat Wearing your black hat you might consider the followings: 1. Cost. ( This proposal would be too expensive.) 2. Regulation. ( I don’t think that the regulation would allow.) 3. Design. ( This design might look nice, but it is not practical.) 4. Materials. ( This material would mean high maintenance.) 5. Safety issues. ( What about handrails?)
  • 6. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH The yellow hat is for optimism and the logical positive view of things. Wearing the yellow hat allows you to look for benefit, feasibility and how something can be done. The Yellow Hat Question you might ask while wearing the yellow hat include: • What are the benefits of this option? • Why is this proposal preferable? • What are the positive assets of this design? • How can we make this work?
  • 7. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH The green hat is specifically concerned with creating new ideas and new ways of looking at things. • Creating thinking • Additional alternatives • Putting forward possibilities and hypotheses • Interesting proposal • New approaches • Provocation and changes The Green Hat
  • 8. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH The blue hat is the overview or process control. It is for organizing and controlling the thinking process so that it becomes more productive. The Blue Hat Wearing your blue hat, You might: • Look not at the subject itself but at the “thinking “about the subject. • Set the agenda for thinking • Suggest the next step in the thinking, “I suggest we try some green hat thinking to get some new ideas” • Ask for a summary, conclusion, or decision, “Could we have a summary of your views?”
  • 9. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH Benefits Of The Six Thinking Hat Improve Exploration Save Time Improve Creativity & Innovation Foster Collaborative Thinking
  • 10. THAKUR INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES AND RESEARCH Which hat is? – my ideas 1 “I am unhappy with the merger” 2 “Our product is the most expensive on the market” 3 “It will increase our profile in the community” 4 “Low staff morale is causing high attrition” 5 “We tried that and the staff are not supportive” 6 “It would be easy to implement a new logo” 7 “We could offer two for the price of one 8 “I am concerned about staff morale 9 “Are we ready to commit to a decision?”
  • 11.

Editor's Notes

  1. Calls for the information known or needed – gathering just the facts The white hat covers facts, figure, data and information. Too often facts and figure are embedded in an argument or belief. Wearing your white hat allows you to present information in a neutral and objective way. Question you might ask while wearing your white hat include: 1 What information do we have here ? 2 What information is missing ? 3. What information would we like to have ? 4. How are we going to get the information ? When you put on your white hat, you focus directly on the information – what is available, what is needed, and how it might be obtained. Proposales, opinions, beliefs and argument should be put aside.
  2. The red hat covers intuition, feelings, hunches and emotions. Usually, feelings and intuition can only be introduced into a discussion if they are supported by logic. Often the feeling is genuine but the logic is spurious. Wearing the red hat allows you to put forward your feelings and intuition without the need for justification, explanation or apology. Putting on the red hat, you express what you feel about the project. Examples: My gut-feeling is that this will not work. I don’t like the way this is being done. This proposal is terrible. My intuition tells me that prices will fail soon. The red hat allows feelings to come into the discussion pretending to be anything else. It is always valuable to get feelings out into the open.
  3. Judgment, caution and evaluation Wearing the black hat you to consider your proposal critically and logically. The black hat is used to reflect on why a suggestion does not fit the facts, the available experience, or the system is use. Wearing your black hat you might consider the followings: Cost. ( This proposal would be too expensive.) Regulation. ( I don’t think that the regulation would allow.) Design. ( This design might look nice, but it is not practical.) Materials. ( This material would mean high maintenance.) Safety issues. ( What about handrails?) Mistakes can be disastrous. So the black hat is very valuable. It is that most used hat and possibly the most useful hat. However, It is very easy to overuse the black hat. Caution, used too early in the problem solving process, can easily kill creative ideas with early negativity.
  4. Calls for optimism, positive aspects The yellow hat is for optimism and the logical positive view of things. Wearing the yellow hat allows you to look for benefit, feasibility and how something can be done. Question you might ask while wearing the yellow hat include: What are the benefits of this option? Why is this proposal preferable? What are the positive assets of this design? How can we make this work? Yellow hat thinking is a deliberate search for the positive. Benefit are not always immediately obvious and you might have to search for them. Obvious and you might have to serch for them. Every cretive idea deserves some yellow hat attention.
  5. The green hat is specifically concerned with creating new ideas and new ways of looking at things. Creating thinking Additional alternatives Putting forward possibilities and hypotheses Interesting proposal New approaches Provocation and changes The green hat makes time and space available to focus on creative thinking. Even if no creative ideas are forthcoming, the green hat asks for the creative efforts. Often green hat thinking is difficult because it goes against our habits of recognition, Judgment and criticism. Typical question include: Are there any other ideas here? Are there any additional alternatives? Could we do this is a different way? Could there be another explanation?
  6. Controlling the sequence of thinking The blue hat is the overview or process control. It is for organizing and controlling the thinking process so that it becomes more productive. The blue hat is for thinking about thinking. In technical terms, the blue hat is concerned with meta-cognition. Wearing your blue hat, You might: Look not at the subject itself but at the “thinking “about the subject. Set the agenda for thinking Suggest the next step in the thinking, “I suggest we try some green hat thinking to get some new ideas” Ask for a summary, conclusion, or decision, “Could we have a summary of your views?”