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# Start the exercise always from the white hat and conclude with the blue one, all the hats can be used more then one time per section if considered useful. | # Start the exercise always from the white hat and conclude with the blue one, all the hats can be used more then one time per section if considered useful. | ||
#:For every hat these are the instructions that the participants should follow: | #:For every hat these are the instructions that the participants should follow: | ||
| − | #*White Hat: Present the facts of the case and the data available, analyzing the information you have. | + | #*<font color="white" >White Hat </font>: Present the facts of the case and the data available, analyzing the information you have. |
#*Green Hat: Generate ideas and think of various alternatives to handle the issue. | #*Green Hat: Generate ideas and think of various alternatives to handle the issue. | ||
#*Yellow Hat: Consider all the positive aspects related to the issue and eventually to the ideas generated, concentrating on the benefits they can produce. | #*Yellow Hat: Consider all the positive aspects related to the issue and eventually to the ideas generated, concentrating on the benefits they can produce. | ||
Revision as of 10:36, 24 March 2009
 SIX THINKING HATS |
| Technique for group thinking and decision making based on the principle that an issue should be explored from many different perspectives (symbolized by the hats) to be fully understood. The same technique can be used also ex-post, to assess past experiences from every point of view. The use of this technique allows necessary emotion and skepticism, as well as good expectation, to be brought into the decision making process, that otherwise would be purely rational. The Six Thinking Hats strategy also forces participants to move outside their habitual thinking style and not to feel ashamed to speak about their emotions and fears, so that they can reach a more rounded view of the situation.
The various perspectives that the participants have to assume are symbolized by six hats of different colors, which represent six modes and directions of thinking. The six hats are:
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 Conducting a Six Thinking Hats Session |
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References
- ↑ www.12manage.com (21 January 2009), members.optusnet.com.au (21 January 2009), www.mindtools.com (21 January 2009), Tools for Knowledge and Learning, Ben Ramalingam, 2006.