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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides a structured approach to thinking by identifying six distinct perspectives or "thinking styles" represented by colored hats. These include white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (process control). Using the different colored hats allows a group to examine decisions and problems more thoroughly from various angles to develop robust, well-rounded solutions. The technique blocks confrontations and forces thinking outside habitual styles to incorporate different viewpoints.

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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides a structured approach to thinking by identifying six distinct perspectives or "thinking styles" represented by colored hats. These include white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (process control). Using the different colored hats allows a group to examine decisions and problems more thoroughly from various angles to develop robust, well-rounded solutions. The technique blocks confrontations and forces thinking outside habitual styles to incorporate different viewpoints.

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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides a structured approach to thinking by identifying six distinct perspectives or "thinking styles" represented by colored hats. These include white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (process control). Using the different colored hats allows a group to examine decisions and problems more thoroughly from various angles to develop robust, well-rounded solutions. The technique blocks confrontations and forces thinking outside habitual styles to incorporate different viewpoints.

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    The Six Thinking Hats technique provides a structured approach to thinking by identifying six distinct perspectives or "thinking styles" represented by colored hats. These include white (facts), red (emotions), black (caution), yellow (optimism), green (creativity), and blue (process control). Using the different colored hats allows a group to examine decisions and problems more thoroughly from various angles to develop robust, well-rounded solutions. The technique blocks confrontations and forces thinking outside habitual styles to incorporate different viewpoints.

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    The six thinking hats technique represents six distinct thinking styles (white, red, black, yellow, green, blue) that allow people to examine issues from different perspectives in a structured manner.

    The white hat focuses on facts and data, the red hat focuses on emotions, the black hat looks at weaknesses and risks, the yellow hat focuses on benefits, the green hat encourages creativity, and the blue hat manages the thinking process.

    The six thinking hats technique can be used in meetings to structure discussion and avoid confrontations, or individually to get a more well-rounded view of issues by considering different perspectives systematically.

    SIX THINKING HATS MORE THAN THE BRAIN STORMING TECHNIQUES

    INTRODUCTION
    The de Bono Hats system (also known as "Six Hats" or "Thinking hats") is a thinking tool for group discussion and individual thinking. Combined with the idea of parallel thinking which is associated with it, it provides a means for groups to think together more effectively, and a means to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way. The method is attributed to Dr. Edward de Bono and is the subject of his book, Six Thinking Hats

    The premise of the method is that the human brain thinks in a number of distinct ways which can be identified, deliberately accessed and hence planned for use in a structured way allowing one to develop strategies for thinking about particular issues. Dr de Bono identifies six distinct states in which the brain can be "sensitised". In each of these states the brain will identify and bring into conscious thought certain aspects of issues being considered (e.g. gut instinct, pessimistic judgment, neutral facts).

    'Six Thinking Hats' is 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, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation. Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they may fail to look at a problem from an emotional, intuitive, creative or negative viewpoint. This can mean that they underestimate resistance to plans, fail to make creative leaps and do not make essential contingency plans. Similarly, pessimists may be excessively defensive, and more emotional people may fail to look at decisions calmly and rationally. If you look at a problem with the 'Six Thinking Hats' technique, then you will solve it using all approaches. Your decisions and plans will mix ambition, skill in execution, public sensitivity, creativity and good contingency planning.

    How to Use the Tool


    You can use Six Thinking Hats in meetings or on your own. In meetings it has the benefit of blocking the confrontations that happen when people with different thinking styles discuss the same problem. Each 'Thinking Hat' is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:

    White Hat:
    With this thinking hat you focus on the data available. Look at the information you have, and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them. This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.

    Red Hat: 'Wearing' the red hat, you look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.

    Black Hat: Using black hat thinking, look at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it cautiously and 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 them, alter them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them.

    Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans 'tougher' and more resilient. It can also help you to spot fatal flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action. Black Hat thinking is one of the real benefits of this technique, as many successful people get so used to thinking positively that often they cannot see problems in advance. This leaves them under-prepared for difficulties.

    Yellow Hat:
    The yellow hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.

    Green Hat:
    The Green Hat stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem. It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas. A whole range of creativity tools can help you here.

    Blue Hat:
    The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking. When contingency plans are needed, they will ask for Black Hat thinking, etc. A variant of this technique is to look at problems from the point of view of different professionals (e.g. doctors, architects, sales directors, etc.) or different customers.

    Conclusion

    Using a variety of approaches within thinking and problem solving allows the issue to be addressed from a variety of angles, thus servicing the needs of all individuals concerned. The thinking hats are useful for learners as they illustrate the need for individuals to address problems from a variety of different angles. They also aid learners as they allow the individual to recognize any deficiencies in the way that they approach problem solving, thus allowing them to rectify such issues.

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