de Bono’s - Six Thinking Hats®
Introduction
Dr Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® is globally renowned tool that will change the way your team thinks and communicates - with real effect and impact. With the Six Thinking Hats®, you will learn to:
- shift your thinking (and others) from negative to positive
- shift your thinking from emotional reactions to facts within seconds
The Six Hats approach reduces adversarial thinking and encourages clearer, more effective thinking and idea development
The Challenge
Have you come across organisations that have a 'meetings, meetings and more meetings culture'? Hours upon hours spent debating issues, with very few positive outcomes and new ideas achieved? Most often, in this environment, creativity and innovation is stifled and people fear speaking out.
The Six Thinking Hats® approach totally eradicates situations like this, leading organisations to more effective idea generation and decision making.
Workshop Overview
The workshop includes a mix of teaching and practical exercises. Participants will work in small groups with continual support from the trainer, who has been certified by Dr de Bono to deliver the course. The workshop materials have been developed by Dr Edward de Bono personally, and each delegate is supplied with a comprehensive workbook to provide ongoing reinforcement of the techniques learnt.
Workshop Benefits
Dr Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® system is a simple and powerful tool. It will change the way your team thinks by teaching creative problem solving skills. You and your team will learn how to:
- Lead shorter, more productive meetings
- Look at decisions and problems systematically
- Generate more and better ideas
- Improve team results
- Reduce conflict
Workshop Objectives
During the workshop, you will:
- learn to use different approaches to business problems
- explore all aspects of each situation and generate alternatives that go far beyond obvious solutions.
- separate fact from opinion
- look fully at both positive and negative options and expose hidden agendas that can sabotage any meeting.
- learn how to stimulate innate creativity
- learn how to turn seemingly insoluble problems into real opportunities.
- leave the workshop with skills that they have practised and can apply immediately on return to the workplace.
Workshop Outline
You will understand and learn:
- The nature of thinking
- Why we need to change our behaviour
- Why argument is inadequate
- Introducing the Six Thinking Hats®
- Why very little new thinking is accomplished at meetings
- Tools and techniques focusing on each hat
Using the Six Hats:
- Single use of the Six Hats
- Systematic use of the Six Hats
- Frameworks for structuring meetings and focusing thinking
- How to turn disagreements into positive contributions
- Techniques for opportunity thinking
- Programming meetings for a successful outcome
- Creating the action plan
The Six Thinking Hats:
 | The White Hat |  | The Red Hat |
 | The Black Hat |  | The Yellow Hat |
 | The Green Hat |  | The Blue Hat |
Who should attend?
Business people who want to improve team-working, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster. It will be especially beneficial to the following groups:
- Project / Strategy teams
- Departmental managers and their teams
- Managers and executives who require greater levels of innovation and creativity
- Individual contributors and teams working in highly competitive or changing environments
You might also be interested in:
- de Bono's Lateral Thinking™ - Two Day Full Course
- de Bono's Power of Perception (formely DATT)™
- de Bono's Focus on Facilitation™
