Six Thinking Hats)

White hats are neutral and objective. It represents facts and information. Neutral fact and data cap, information processing function;

Yellow is an optimistic hat. Represents a positive view that is logical. Optimistic hat, the ability to identify positive factors of things;

Black is gloomy. It means warning and criticism. Exercise caution to discover negative factors of things;

Red Hats are emotional colors. It represents feeling, intuition, and hunch. Emotional cap, which forms the function of opinion and feeling;

Green hats are spring colors. Is the creative color. The cap of creativity, the ability to create solutions and ideas for problems;

Blue hat is the color of the sky, covering the four fields. Controls the entire process of things. Command caps, command other hats, and manage the entire thinking process.

I. What is the Six Thinking Hats?

Dr. Edward de Bono, a British scholar, developed his Six Thinking Hats as a training mode of thinking, or a model that comprehensively considers problems. It provides parallel thinking tools to avoid wasting time on mutual disputes. It emphasizes "what can be", not
"What is it" is to seek a way forward, rather than debate who is right and who is wrong. Using the Six Thinking Hats of Puno will make the chaotic thinking clearer, turn meaningless arguments in the group into creative ideas, and make everyone creative. The Six Thinking Hats are management thinking tools, communication operation frameworks, and effective methods to improve team IQ. The Six Thinking Hats are an extremely simple and proven thinking tool that gives you enthusiasm, courage, and creativity for every meeting and discussion, every decision is full of new ideas and vitality. This tool helps us:

1. Increase constructive output

2. Fully research every situation and problem and create unconventional solutions

3. Use "Parallel" thinking skills to replace confrontation and Vertical thinking methods

4. Improve the collaboration capability of enterprise employees and bring the potential of the team to the limit

II. Application of Six Thinking caps

We know that there are six hats, but we often don't know when to wear them. A Team member often wears hats of different colors at the same time, which leads to a lot of confusion, quarrel and wrong decisions.

The "Six Thinking Hats" approach separates us from the different aspects of thinking. In this way, we can pay enough attention to and fully consider the different aspects of the problem. Just like a color printer, the color is first decomposed into the basic color, and then each basic color is printed on the same paper, and the color is printed. Similarly, we break down the thinking model, and then think about the same thing according to each thinking model, and finally get a comprehensive "color" thinking.

In most teams, team members are forced to accept the established thinking model of the Team, which limits the degree of attention of individuals and teams and cannot effectively solve some problems. Using the Six Thinking Hats model, the team members are no longer limited to a single thinking model, and the thinking hats represent role classification, which is a thinking requirement, rather than representing the actors themselves. The Six Thinking roles represented by the Six Thinking Hats cover almost the whole process of thinking. They can effectively support personal behaviors or mutual encouragement in group discussions.

The following describes how to apply a typical six-thought-hat team in practice:

1. State the problem fact (white hat)

2. provide suggestions on how to solve the problem (green hat)

3. Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the suggestion: list the advantages (yellow hat); list the disadvantages (Black Hat)

4. intuitively judge the various options (Red Hat)

5. Make a summary and draw a solution (blue hat)

Iii. Thinking about the Six Thinking Hats

I personally think that the Six Thinking Hats broaden people's thinking model and make people think more objective in the process of solving problems, the Six Thinking Hats we know are actually indicating that people have different ways of thinking, and they have different starting points for thinking about the problem. That is to say, everyone has their own way of thinking, with this understanding, it is easy to put aside subjective ideas to avoid seeing people with colored eyes. in general, the essence of "not right" in the workplace is more acceptable.