Role of Six Thinking Hats of Lateral Thinking, Edward DeBono. Blue, White, Red, Yellow, Green, Black Hats.

1. SIX THINKING HATS
OF LATERAL
THINKING
•Rohan Solanki 1310
•Kalyani Mudliar 1289
•Afreen Shaikh 1307
•Nikhat Rajput 1302
•Snehal Zanzarkia 1321
•Nilesh Pandey
•Prabhu Hosmani 1282

3. Six hats are???
 Concept by Edward De Bono
 Six hats of six colors for six types of thinking
 Each hat identifies a type of thinking
 Hats are the directions of thinking
 Hats help a group use parallel thinking
 You can “put on” and “take off” a hat
 Used for
 Problem solving
 Strategic planning
 Running meetings
 Much more

5. Summary of Six Hats…
Blue: Control & organization of thinking
White: Objective facts & figures
Red: Emotions & feelings
Yellow: Hope, positive & speculative
Green: Creativity, ideas & lateral
thinking
Black: Cautious & careful

6. BLUE HAT

7. BLUE HAT
• Thinking about the process
• Instructions for thinking
• The organization of thinking
• Control of the other hats
• Discipline and focus

8. Role of Blue Hat…
• Control of thinking & the process
• Begin & end session with blue hat
• Facilitator, session leader’s role
• Choreography
• open, sequence, close
• Focus: what should we be thinking about
• Asking the right questions
• Defining & clarifying the problem
• Setting the thinking tasks

9. WHITE

10. WHITE HAT
• Neutral, objective information
• Facts & figures
• Questions: what do we know, what don’t
we know, what do we need to know
• Excludes opinions, hunches, judgments
• Removes feelings & impressions
• Two tiers of facts
• Believed Facts
• Checked Facts

11. RED
HAT

12. RED HAT
• Emotions & feelings
• Hunches, intuitions, impressions
• Doesn’t have to be logical or consistent
• No justifications, reasons or basis
• All decisions are emotional in the end

13. YELLOW
HAT

14. YELLOW HAT
• Positive & speculative
• Positive thinking, optimism, opportunity
• Benefits
• Best-case scenarios
• Exploration
• Helps keep on going

15. GREEN
HAT

16. GREEN HAT
• New ideas, concepts, perceptions
• Deliberate creation of new ideas
• Alternatives and more alternatives
• New approaches to problems
• Creative & lateral thinking

17. BLACK
HAT

18. BLACK HAT
• Cautious and careful
• Logical negative – why it won’t work
• Critical judgment, pessimistic view
• Separates logical negative from
emotional
• Focus on errors, evidence, conclusions
• Logical & truthful, but not necessarily fair

19. Benefits of the Six Thinking
Hats?
 Provides a common language
 Experience & intelligence of each person
(Diversity of thought)
 Use more of our brains
 Helps people work against type, preference
 Removal of ego (reduce confrontation)
 Save time
 Focus (one thing at a time)
 Create, evaluate & implement action plans