Six Thinking Hats - Parallel Thinking
In 1985 Dr Edward de Bono designed an alternative method of 'parallel thinking' which is now widely used in business and education. The Six Thinking Hats course will teach you how to separate thinking into six distinct categories; each identified by its own coloured metaphorical "thinking hat". By mentally wearing and switching "hats", you can easily focus or redirect thoughts, the conversation, or the meeting and break free from the traditional argument system.
Who should attend
Leaders, senior managers and all business people who are responsible for improving their organisation's performance.
This essential course:
- Moves your team from traditional adversarial thinking to co-operative thinking.
- Redresses the behavioural factors that impede successful team-work.
- Removes the politics from team decisions and meetings.
- Provides a common language for your entire organisation.
- Creates dynamic, results-based thinking.
- Reduces meeting times by up to 70%.
- Solves problems more efficiently.
- Make better quality decisions with a shared vision.
White Hat - Information known and needed
Yellow Hat - Optimism: Values and benefits - Why it will work
Green Hat - Possibilities, alternatives and new ideas
Red Hat - Feelings, hunches and intuition
Black Hat - Negative judgement/devil's advocate - Why it will not work, use caution, not argument
Blue Hat - Managing the thinking process
Course dates
Our public courses are scheduled on demand as detailed in the course calendar. If you would like to work with the Foundation to develop a tailor-made course to match your specific needs, or you require a specialist consultative approach please contact us.
Fees
> Individual place: - private and public sector £475 + vat; charitable and voluntary sector £425 +vat
> Three or more delegates or multiple workshops (price per place): - private and public sector - £425 + vat; charitable and voluntary sector £395 +vat.