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Six thinking hats technique

Six thinking hats technique

'Six Thinking Hats' can help you to look at problems from different perspectives, but one at a time, to avoid confusion from too many angles crowding your thinking.

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Six thinking hats technique

Six thinking hats technique - Change your perspective and start seeing a situation from different points of view.

The White Hat: Be as objective as you can and focus your attention around the information you have. Evaluate it and determine the weak points that can be improved.

The Red Hat: Use your intuition, opinions, and emotions and put yourself in others' shoes to better understand the situation from the outside perspective.

The Black Hat: Every cloud has a silver lining. Identify and take into account the negative results before moving any steps. Highlighting the strengths is fine, but finding the weaknesses that will inspire you to improve is more critical.

The Yellow Hat: Put on this hat and shift your attitude to optimism. Observe the positive aspects of a situation and praise the advantages they bring.

The Green Hat: This hat will inspire you to be creative and find new alternatives and approaches. The level of criticism is lower, which will enable you to find multiple ways to solve the problem, by being inventive.

The Blue Hat: Wearing this hat allows you to see the overall situation from an objective point of view. You only get the bigger picture when you detach yourself and observe everything from the outside.

Problem you want to reflect on

'Six Thinking Hats' can help you to look at problems from different perspectives, but one at a time, to avoid confusion from too many angles crowding your thinking.

Yellow Hat

The Yellow Hat will help you to think positively. While you are 'wearing' this hat be optimistic, notice the benefits and the value in them.

Positive view
Benefits
Feasibility

Green Hat

The Green Hat represents creativity. Develop creative solutions to any problem with this hat. This unconstrained mindset allows you to freely test out a variety of useful creativity tools, due to its low level of criticism.

Interesting proposals
Alternatives
Creative thinking

Blue Hat

The Blue Hat thinking represents process control. When having trouble because ideas are needed, the Green Hat may come in handy since it is the one used for creativity. In case of emergencies and dealing with them, the Black Hat is required.

Organize the thinking
Controls the thinking

Black Hat

Using the Black Hat you consider the negative outcomes. Find what would not work and why. This way you highlight the weak points in a plan. Black Hat will help you to identify the flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action.

Critical thinking
Caution

Red Hat

Using the Red Hat, you will use your intuition and emotions. Also, you will consider how others might look at the problem emotionally. Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.

Intuition
Hunches
Gut-feelings

White Hat

Using the white thinking hat, you center your attention around the available data. Take the information that you have, analyze it, and see what you can learn from it. Become aware of your weak points and start working on improving your knowledge.

Facts

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