Collaborative Decision Making: Using Six Thinking Hats
Facilitator/Trainer Phillip Marler - OD
Intended for staff at all levels.
Description
Six Thinking Hats (created by Edward De Bono) is a powerful technique that helps us improve our decision-making and communication by encouraging different perspectives. Many of us tend to have a dominant thinking style which becomes stronger each time we use it. Other styles of thinking or states tend to be under-utilised even though they may be more appropriate to the situation.
To make it easier to identify and work with these other styles/states, coloured hats are used as a metaphors to describe different ways of thinking and includes the following:
- White Hat - Facts and information
- Red Hat - Feelings and emotion
- Black Hat - Critical judgement
- Yellow Hat - Sunny optimism
- Green Hat - Creative and innovative
- Blue Hat - Thinking about thinking
In this highly practical course we will employ the concept of Six Thinking Hats to scenarios and situations relevant to the participants. Participants will discover a range of situations in which Six Thinking Hats can be used, such as: team meetings, coaching, goal setting and planning processes.
Learning Objectives
This module will enable participants to:
- Explore the difference between habitual thinking and flexibility thinking
- Apply the Six Thinking Hats to individual and team decision-making
- Develop strategies to implement the Six Thinking Hats in the workplace.
This course is part of Career Development.
