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What is Six Thinking Hats?

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6 hats promotes and facilitates structure and efficiency, and helps significantly reduce the misunderstandings that occur when emotional, factual, and logical input is not identified as being of these distinct types.

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How do wefeel?

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What are thebad things?

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What do weknow, what dowe want to find

out?

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What greatideas do we

have?

3What are thegood things?

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How are wegoing to

organise our thinking?

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The following is distillation of the 6 hats...

White hat (neutral, objectivity):Hard data. Facts and figures. Questions/suggestions about what data to collec

Red hat (emotional, intuitive): Hunches. Feelings. Soft data. Emotional stuff discussing something that makes the discussion participant angry, etc.)

Black hat (logical negative): Caution. Rationale for not doing something, whwrong, legal limits, etc.

Yellow hat (logical positive): Savings. Benefits. Advantages. Usually forwar

Green hat (creative): Proposals, suggestions, ideas, alternatives, provocationsinteresting in an idea.

Blue hat (meta-hat): Control, organization of the discussion process and usehats. Blue hat use can suggest a particular structure to a discussion ("2 minuthat, then 5 minutes of yellow, then..."). Or on-the-fly stuff - "we seem to be smuch more time on red hat than I expected - anyone else agree?" Blue hat caused for conclusions.

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Ingredients in

Thinking

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WHITE HAT THINKING

Facts:Identifying and communicating all of the relevant data andfacts, and to gather the necessary missing data for anyproject, problem, decision, concern or opportunity in order to

arrive at a sound conclusion

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Y ELLOW HATTHINKINGPositive Value :Identifying and finding thevalue, feasibility and benefits in ideas, proposals,suggestions or potential solutions. A mind shift from theidea killer habit of knocking ideas down as soon asthey are suggested.

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B LACK HAT THINKING

Difficulties: Identifying all of the logical

reasons why something might not work. To use thisvaluable information to design a project planthat will eliminate the faults before taking action.Ensuring success .

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GREEN HAT THINKING

Creative Thinking: G enerating ideas,possibilities and alternatives.Expanding your

options;the world of the possible.G

enerating ideasthat will overcome the difficulties pointed out in blackhat thinking. Designing your way into the future

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RED HAT THINKING

Intuition: C ommunicating your hunches, gutinstincts or feelings about a subject. It also enables themind to move beyond initial reactions and get down tothe productive business of exploring a subject much

more thoroughly

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B LUE HAT THINKING

Process Control: Thinking about

your thinking before doing your thinking. Managing thethinking process. C reating thinking plans that

will cover the appropriate thinking bases in order toachieve your desired end result .