Six Thinking Hats™

Breakthrough problem-solving. Efficient meetings. Terrific idea generation. Sound too good to be true? Apply the Six Thinking Hats™ method, and your team can achieve these results-not just when inspiration strikes, but every day. Developed by Dr. Edward de Bono, Six Thinking Hats™ is a powerful framework for organizing your thinking.

Results:

• Understand your personal thinking style
• Recognize the thinking styles of others
• Learn to be a more strategic individual thinker
• Become a more creative and evaluative thinker
• Think smarter, not harder
  
  

Maximize Individual Thinking

• Understand why you think the way you do
• Learn to get "un-stuck" in your thinking
• Focus on your strengths, and identify your areas of opportunity
• Use the framework to maximize the time you spend thinking

Separate Out Your Thinking

• Understand the concept of parallel thinking
• Learn the six distinct thinking modes
• Practice thinking in each of these modes
• Learn to separate feelings from fact

Master Meeting Management

• Lead more focused, productive meetings
• Learn how to manage the different styles of thinkers
• Identify what is holding you back in your meetings
• Channel the factors that impact thinking in a meeting: emotion, logic, creative, skeptic
• Learn to harness the collective thinking of your team
• Foster respect for the individual

Make better business decisions

• Think smarter, not harder
• Solve problems and develop innovative solutions