Today lesson is about different methods of generating ideas. One interesting method is by wearing six thinking hats when generating ideas. What are the six kinds of hats?
White hat : Information & reports; lays the groundwork; not evaluation
Red hat : Intuition, opinion & emotion
Yellow hat : Praise, positive aspects, benefits and strong points of an idea
Black hat : Criticism, negative aspects; devil's advocate; anticipation of potential difficulties
Green hat : Alternatives, new approaches & 'everything goes'
Blue hat : "Big Picture", "Conductor hat", "Meta hat", "thinking about thinking", overall process; ensures rules of "six hats" are observed; summarizes and concludes discussion
What are the purpose of the "6 hats"?
- focus and improve the thinking process
- encourage creative, parallel and laternal thinking
- improve communication
- speed up decision making
- avoid debate
