6 Hats Thinking

6 Hats Thinking

Edward De Bono - Six hats thinking for decision making You can use Six Thinking Hats thinking technique during the decision making process to ensure that you have all the information required to make the correct decision and to ensure you have considered all aspects before making a final choice. Each thinking style provides a different perspective, explained below: White Hat • With the White hat thinking style focus on examining the data available. • What information you have? • What and see what you can learn from it? • What gaps do you have in your knowledge before you can make a well informed decision and how do you fill those gaps? • This is where you analyse trends, and explore previous data to inform your decision making process. Red Hat • With the Red hat thinking style focus on the decision considering feelings, intuition, hunches, and emotion. • Consider how other people will react emotionally to any decision made. • Try to understand and anticipate the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning. Black Hat • The Black hat thinking style focuses on any problems or possible challenge areas of a decision. • Think defensively. • Try to see why it might not work. • This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows you to eliminate problem areas, reduce the impacts of negative aspects of a decision or prepare plans to overcome them. Yellow Hat • The Yellow hat thinking style helps focuses on the benefits and positive aspects of a decision. • Consider a decision from an optimistic viewpoint to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. • Yellow focused thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks negative, gloomy and difficult. Green Hat • The Green hat thinking style focuses on the creative aspects of the decision making progress. • Have you considered creative ideas or solutions which require out of the box thinking? • Have you considered all possibilities? • Generate ideas without crit