CI Tools – The Six Thinking Hats
Posted by webmaster 28 April 2007
I hear about them and I’ve read about them, but what are these hats all about ? Well first of all, and despite the name, nobody wears hats, in fact there are no actual hats at all ! The hats are simply metaphors that represent different types of thinking.
The Six Thinking Hats is a thinking technique that is used to aid participants to think in parallel and look at things from a number of different perspectives. The methodology forces us to move outside our habitual ways of thinking, and helps us to better understand the complexity of a situation and to identify issues and opportunities we not have otherwise seen.
Over the coming weeks CIN will summarise each of the associated tools used in the methodology with a view to providing a bit more background for those who might consider undertaking training in the methods for application in the workplace and life beyond work.
The CIN currently offers full day sessions in this thinking method which can be immediately transferred and practically applied within the workplace to:
- Promote fuller input from all participants,
- Reduce argument from those with divergent points of view,
- Establish clear focus and direction, and in doing so,
- Improve collaborative effort, and
- Significantly reduce the amount of time spent in meetings.
For enquiries regarding these sessions contact frank.connolly@police.vic.gov.au
May 11th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Question:
Before Mt Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain in the world ?
Answer:
Mount Everest was the highest mountain, even before it was “discovered”.
July 29th, 2007 at 11:10 am
[...] 1 of 4 full day training sessions in the Six Thinking Hats (valued at $500.00) [...]
August 23rd, 2007 at 8:20 pm
[...] Problem solving with Parallel Thinking [...]
August 27th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
[...] The final session of the day involved a session on the Six Thinking Hats with aligned very nicely with all of the mornings content. The team were exposed to parallel thinking and how this type of thinking can be applied at work or in private life. [...]
October 29th, 2007 at 8:23 pm
[...] Thirteen staff from Region 5, Division 2 of Victoria Police recently attended a Six Thinking Hats / Parallel Thinking workshop at the Narre Warren Police Station. [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 8:51 pm
[...] The group with representatives from Human Services, Justice, Education & Early Childhood Development, Treasury & Finance, Sustainability & Environment and Victoria Police, spent Wed building skills in the area of parallel thinking facilitation, and Thur learning and practising the Lateral Thinking tools. [...]
November 15th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
[...] Members spent Wed building skills in in the area of parallel thinking and Thur learning and practising the Lateral Thinking tools. With the further addition of skills in Simplicity facilitation, Mind Mapping and a range of other methods over the coming months, this group will possess a skill-set unique to the VPS from which members respective departments will benefit. [...]
December 19th, 2007 at 5:12 pm
[...] Today seven members from Region 5, and 2 from the Victoria Police Service Delivery Team completed Stage 2 of a three stage process in becoming meeting facilitators using parallel thinking. [...]
January 15th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
[...] The techniques applied by Trevor and Steve are particularly useful when there are strongly held views, when discussion is rambling and going nowhere and when time is short. The process is designed to help participants to look at things from a number of different perspectives and helps participants move outside of their habitual thinking style, which allows for a fuller exploration of the subject matter at hand. [...]
February 26th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
[...] long session the group explored a range of thinking tools including the discipline of Focus, the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking tools and considered ways in which the tools might be applied back in their [...]
April 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
[...] applied not only within the workplace but also in life beyond work. Chief amongst these were the six thinking hats, lateral thinking tools and disciplines of purpose & area [...]
May 27th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
[...] May 21st the CIN conducted a Six Thinking Hats session for a number of graduate recruits from the 2008 Victorian Government Graduate Scheme [...]
May 29th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
[...] and every employee can have on the organisation. This was followed by a session on de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats focussing on they they can be effectively applied in a community correctional setting. Chief [...]
August 7th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
[...] addition to the associated parallel thinking tools the participants spent time looking at ways of generating ideas from “outside the [...]
December 9th, 2008 at 7:52 pm
[...] group of 12 looked at the parallel thinking of the Six Thinking Hats and road tested one of the lateral thinking tools as a part of the process. The Focus tools were [...]
April 7th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
[...] a challenging and interactive program that provided participants with in-depth knowlege of the the Six Thinking Hats Framework, tools for Parallel Thinking, and insight into the skill of applying Lateral Thinking to [...]
April 20th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
[...] difference that using the Six Thinking Hats methodology will enable DSE to have shorter and more focused meetings, more creative approaches and [...]
April 26th, 2009 at 1:30 am
[...] Creativity and Masterclasses in Mind Mapping facilitated by Tony Buzan, training in de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats & the Direct Attention Thinking Tools and copies of Ed Bernacki’s I am an idea [...]
May 4th, 2009 at 7:22 pm
[...] too easy to dismiss the de Bono Six Thinking Hats as a simplistic approach to thinking about problems. At first glance it seems so simple – hats, [...]
May 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
[...] impact on the way we think as opposed to what we think. He is the inventor of Lateral Thinking, the Six Thinking Hats, DATT and many other formal techniques for deliberate creative thinking. His powerfully simple [...]
May 30th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
[...] Draper-Dix, Strategic Policy Unit, Dept of Primary Industries. Edward de Bono, the developer of the Six Thinking Hats and Lateral Thinking will be presenting to the CIN on June [...]
June 10th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
[...] Many of the now famous tools for design thinking that have been developed by Dr de Bono over the years were briefly described, including the Lateral Thinking tools, Challenge, Concept Extraction, Provocation and Random Entry and the multiple perspective parallel thinking of the Six Thinking Hats. [...]
June 17th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
[...] All four have now practically applied the de Bono thinking methods in work based facilitations designed to enhance the group thinking, provide a focused approach and ensure group sessions are more productive. The assessments undertaken were a action based learning follow up from formal training in the Six Thinking Hats. [...]
June 29th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
[...] All three have now practically applied the de Bono thinking methods in work based facilitations designed to enhance the group thinking, provide a focused approach and ensure group sessions are more productive. The assessments undertaken were a action based learning follow up from formal training in the Six Thinking Hats. [...]
July 23rd, 2009 at 8:07 pm
[...] VPSCIN invites members to attend a two day training session in de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats. The Hats were devised to promote a more constructive and creative approach to thinking and [...]
August 13th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
[...] VPSCIN invites members to attend a two day training session in de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats. The Hats were devised to promote a more constructive and creative approach to thinking and [...]
September 5th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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