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Six Thinking Hats® is a simple, effective parallel
thinking process that helps people be more
productive, focused, and mindfully involved. And once learned
the tools can be applied immediately!
You and your team members can learn how to separate thinking
into six valuable functions and roles. Each thinking role
is identified with a colored symbolic "thinking hat." By mentally
wearing and switching "hats," you can easily focus or redirect
thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting.
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The White Hat calls for information
known or needed. "The facts, just the facts." |
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The Yellow Hat symbolizes brightness
and optimism. Under this hat you explore the positives and probe
for value and benefit |
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The Black Hat is judgment - the
devil's advocate or why something may not work. Spot the difficulties
and dangers; where things might go wrong. Probably the most
powerful and useful of the Hats but a problem if overused. |
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The Red Hat signifies feelings,
hunches and intuition. When using this hat you can express emotions
and feelings and share fears, likes, dislikes, loves, and hates. |
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The Green Hat focuses on creativity;
the possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas. It's an opportunity
to express new concepts and new perceptions. |
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The Blue Hat is used to manage the
thinking process. It's the control mechanism that ensures the
Six Thinking Hats® guidelines are observed. |
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As you know, the difference between mediocre and highly effective
teams lies not so much in their collective mental equipment,
but in how well they use thier abilities to think and how
well they work together.
Six Thinking Hats® helps actualize the full thinking
potential of teams. And when used as a meeting management
tool, the Six Hats method provides the disciplined process
for individuals to be focused and
to the point.
But possibly most important, it requires each individual
to look at all sides of an issue.
Employees like the way the Six Hats
method neutralizes employee
rank in a meeting where several levels of employees
are present. It also puts people who are quiet and reserved
on an equal playing field with those who are more talkative
and might monopolize a meeting.
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Pertinent Applications for the
Parallel ThinkingT Process of Six Thinking HatsŪ
Six Thinking Hats As a Meeting Management Tool
According to a recent USA TODAY Snapshots® pole 49% of the responders
reported that Unfocused Meetings is what makes them feel unproductive
at work. Utilize Six Thinking Hats as a meeting management tool
and eliminate unfocused and unproductive meetings from your schedule.
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Using Six Thinking Hats®, you and your
team will learn how to:
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•look at
problems, decisions, and opportunities systematically
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•use
Parallel Thinking™ as a group or team to generate
more, better ideas and solutions
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•make
meetings much shorter and more productive
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•reduce conflict
among team members or meeting participants
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•stimulate innovation
by generating more and better ideas quickly
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•create
dynamic, results oriented meetings that make people want to
participate
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•go beyond the obvious
to discover effective alternate solutions
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•spot opportunities
where others see only problems
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•think clearly and
objectively
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•view problems from
new and unusual angles
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•make thorough evaluations
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•see all sides of
a situation
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•keep egos and "turf
protection" in check
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•achieve significant
and meaningful results
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Pre-Seminar
Reading On The Six Thinking Hats.
We encourage you to read this article prior to attending the Six
Thinking Hats seminar. This article is also available in booklet
format and can be purchased to help you communicate the value of
the Six Hats method to others.
Contact us if you need additional copies.
Now, a valuable
and cost-effective extension for Six Thinking Hats classroom training......
A
powerful additive and catalyst in changing the way your organization
thinks, learns and does business.
Click
here to take a look at de Bono Online.
Contact
us and request a 5-day password.
de Bono Online interactive
courseware introduces Six Thinking Hats to your Team Members, allowing
them to quickly become valuable contributors to the Parallel Thinking
effort in your organization.
Powerful
Simplicity!
Q: What is the biggest
hurdle in implementing Six Thinking Hats organization wide?
A: Introducing the concept to untrained
members in your organization.
Q: What is the second
biggest hurdle in implementing Six Thinking Hats organization wide?
A: Having enough classroom instruction
time for application and practice.
Q: What is the most painful
hurdle in implementing any training course organization wide?
A: The time and money for people sitting
in a classroom.
Q: How can The
de Bono Group help you jump these hurdles?
A: Introducing Powerful
Simplicity…
The
Purpose of de
Bono Online is
Simple... and
Return on Investment is Impressive
de Bono Online
is obviously not a replacement for live training, but it does accomplish
a very important objective; it assures that Six Thinking Hats is
introduced consistently throughout your entire organization in an
easily usable interactive learning program format, 45-60 minutes
in duration.
When using Dr. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats™
framework complemented by de Bono Online
your teams can expect these Powerful
Results:
- Faster implementation
of the Six Thinking Hats process
- Increased skill and
development as Parallel Thinkers
- More frequent application
of the methods within teams
- Immediate and continuing
return on your investment
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The
Online Courseware is available to you and your organization when...
- You are a team member where at least one individual on your
team has taken the one-day Six Thinking Hats course led by a certified
instructor. (Click here to see our public
course schedule.)
- You are a team leader and are enrolled in an upcoming Six Thinking
Hats classroom course. This online course is an excellent way
to prepare you for the one-day course and will also serve as an
excellent reinforcement following your classroom teaching.
- You want Six Thinking Hats to be introduced to your organization
or business unit.
As a result and once your leadership team has finished the classroom
course, you may use the online courseware as a quick and cost effective
way to introduce your other team members to the Six Hats process.
Each of your team members may enroll in the online course because
you have taken the classroom course. As one who has participated
in the one-day Six Hats course, you are more knowledgeable and familiar
with the practical application of the process and can guide your
team as an emerging Blue Hat Leader.
Pricing,
Use and Return on Investment
The online course is $69 per user for 6 months of
use. You and your team members may use
the courseware anytime and anywhere
you have Internet access. Once logged on you and your
team members can use the interactive online to prepare yourselves
to effectively function as valuable contributors and users of the
Six Hats process. And, as new members join your team, they too will
be ready to contribute immediately after they have participated
in de Bono Online.
Three
examples of how Parallel Thinking & de
Bono Online can be launched in your organization
A. Let's say one of your
business units has 300 employees and sixteen managers/group leaders
directing the effort. No one has yet been trained in the parallel
thinking process, Six Thinking Hats. We can show you how to train
and get the entire unit on board and using the process for as little
as ninety-five ($95)* dollars per person. That includes training
sixteen manager/group leaders in a one-day Six Thinking Hats program,
a half-day of additional coaching, and de Bono Online courseware
for all 300 employees.
B. You have a business
unit of 125 employees including eight managers/group leaders acting
in a supervisory capacity. All eight of the manager/group leaders
have been through a one day Six Hats program. We can then introduce
Six Thinking Hats Online to all employees for $69* each.
C. You have two business
units with 250 employees each and 15 manager/group leaders in each
unit. Twelve of the manager/group leaders have been through a one-day
Six Thinking Hats course with a certified trainer. That means we
train the remaining 18 in a one-day course with two half-days of
additional coaching. The price for all employees then is as little
as $80* per person.
* Please call The de Bono
Group at 1-888-572-2190 for pricing details.
Now take a look at the benefits
of Six Hats again. Or better yet, go to the stories
on how other companies did in their return on investment. One company
had a return of twenty-six ($26) dollars for every one ($1) dollar
spent on training its employees to use Six Thinking Hats. Whatever
the size of your organization, whether fewer than one hundred or
in the thousands, let us work with you to Change
the Way Your Company Thinks and Does Business.
Key Benefits
to Remember
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Two key benefits
to remember...
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Your people spend little if any time being away
from the job when you introduce Six Thinking Hats in this manner,
and the Six Hats methods can be used immediately after the initial
training/online interactive session. There is no delay. |
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A third key
benefit...
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The investment is affordable with a reasonable per person
cost. |
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A fourth key
benefit...
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Training and application of the use of de Bono methods in
a variety of organizational settings have a proven and well-established
pattern of return on investment record. (Click
here for Return on Investment Reporting.) |
Request a complimentary 5-day password to use and
experience the de Bono Online
courseware now. Call The de Bono Group at 1-888-572-2190 or email
jpc@debonogroup.com
for more information or to order de Bono
Online today! You might also want to take a look at the
Applications
section of this website to see which initiatives you are already
implementing will be complemented by de Bono methods.
P.S. – Be sure to ask about the Online
Management System, which is included in the de Bono
Online package …This revolutionary feature serves as a way
to monitor, encourage, and measure Six Thinking Hats usage within
teams and across your organization.
Finally,
training and learning where everyone is on the same page!
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What Others Have To Say...
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