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Training Intro & Expectations

Who are we?

Jana Birgit Pavel

Training schedule

Expectations & our thinkingbased on Dr. Edward de Bono 6 Thinking Hats

Thinking process can be messy and complex!

– information & facts

– emotions

– caution, weaknesses, risks

Hats help you systemise

your thinking

– benefits, optimism, value

– creative ideas, alternatives

– process control, organising

thinking

Using the White Hat:

Types of Information

• Disputed information

• Other people’s feelings

• What information is available?

• What information would we like

to have?

What do we know?

What do we need to know?

How are we going to get the

needed information?

to have?

• What information do we need?

• What information is missing?

• How are we going to get the

missing information?

Using the Red Hat:

feelings, emotions,

intuition, hunches • Signals feelings

• No explanation needed

• Validity of feelings

• Ingredient in decision making

• States feelings right now

Feelings are often disguised as logic.

We mistrust feelings and emotions

because we cannot see what we are

dealing with.

Intuition may be based one

experience.

• States feelings right now

• Explores a range of feelings

• Allows qualifications

• Brief time allowed

Black Hat: caution,

weaknesses, risk • Notes ways that something

does not fit

• Looks at faults

• Looks at potential problems

Black hat is essential.

Is sometimes resented.

More natural than yellow hat.

Creates problems if overused.

• Speculates about the future

• Finds the errors of logic

• Makes assessments

• Must be applied thoroughly

Yellow Hat: Benefits,

Optimism, Value • Reasons for optimism

• Feasibility

• Benefits

• Values

Requires deliberate effort

Yellow/black hat is stronger than

objective judgment

• Competitive advantage

• Sense of potential

• Idea is weak but concept is

strong

Green Hat: Growth,

Alternatives, Creativity,

Ideas The green hat encourages:

• Making a time and place for creativity

• Creative effort

• Creative attitude

• Extracting concepts• Extracting concepts

• Making modifications

• Problem solving

• Generating possibilities

• Action possibilities

• Lateral thinking techniques

Blue Hat: Facilitating,

Organising, Process

Control • Managing the thinking

• Setting out the agenda

• Deciding next steps

• Defining the focus

• Looking at alternative definitions

• Taking requests

• Managing contingent agendas• Managing contingent agendas

• Maintaining discipline

• Monitoring the thinking

• Asking for summaries

• Noting conclusions

• Organizing decisions

• Interrupting the flow

Form groups of 4 with different nationalities

and let’s do some ‘hat thinking’

Put on your White Hatand focus on facts: what you know, what you want to know about

the TC?

Put on your Red Hatand think about your feelings that you have about the upcoming

week

Let’s switch to Yellow Hatand focus on all the benefits & value of this TC

Time for the Black Hatwhat could go wrong, is there a reason for pessimism?

Green Hatwhat can I contribute, how to make the TC more interesting and

creative?

Time for summary and Blue Hatwhich results of the ‘hat thinking’ shall our group present to the

rest?

Well done!!!