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Six Thinking Hat - Coggle Diagram
Six Thinking Hat
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Red Hat
- The Red Hat signifies
feelings, hunches and intuition.
- the emotional view
- analytical, objective thinking, with an emphasis on facts and feasibility.
- analytical, objective thinking, with an emphasis on facts and feasibility.
- invites the wearer to focus on their intuition, gut reaction, and emotion.
- Seek to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
1.The emotional and intuitive Red Hat is used to get people’s gut reactions to an idea or when you want the team to express their emotions freely.
- Fire and warmth
- Acknowledges feelings like fear, disappointment, enthusiasm, and expresses intuitions or hunches
- Red hat thinkers are all about emotion, gut reaction, and intuition. Not only theirs but others who may be affected by a solution or outcome. This is one of the many reasons why the red hat is metaphorically referred to as ‘the heart’ of the discussion.
Example: As red hats, everyone on the team rates solutions from an emotional perspective: ours and the client’s. Which ones are more likely to cause anger or frustration? Would the client be more receptive to a delayed website delivery or increased budget?
Yellow Hat
- The Yellow Hat symbolizes brightness and optimism.
- Yellow hats are fun to be around because they are perpetual optimists. They are quick to see the benefits of a decision and will keep you going when everything is bleak and giving up is the least difficult option.
- optimistic, speculative, best-case scenario.
- They are happy and have a positive outlook on things, always expecting the best outcome.
- devoted to benefits
- It helps wearers to think positively about potential outcomes, seek the merits of an idea, and reach an optimistic assessment of how it can work.
- helps identify the value of ideas and plans.
- helps counterbalance the judgmental thinking of the Black Hat.
- Sunshine
- Finds the value and benefits of ideas and supporting concepts.
Example: As yellow hats, we refuse to believe that no solution exists. We talk about the advantages of each idea and how we can make them work. If the client approves a deadline extension, we’ll make sure everyone on the team remains available longer than originally planned. If they okay a budget increase, we can talk to department heads about lending us necessary staff.
Black Hat
- The Black Hat is judgment -- the devil's advocate or why something may not work.
- critical, skeptical, focused on risks, and identifying problems.
- or judgment, to look at a decision’s potential negative outcomes.
- t’s an opportunity to be critical or skeptical without inhibition, a useful technique to avoid mistakes and guard against excess optimism.
- The cautious Black Hat is used when you want to get the critical viewpoint of an idea or situation
- The black robes of a judge
- Spots problems and tries to make the best argument against an idea.
- As their name suggests, black hat thinkers look at the potentially negative outcomes of a decision. They’re cautious and look for reasons why something might not work
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Black Hat thinking will also make your solutions more resilient and effective because you’ve run them through grueling worst-case scenarios.
When we wear black hats, it’s time to talk about what can go wrong. What are the reasons why a deadline extension might not work? How can the request for additional budget money cause problems?
Green Hat
1.The Green Hat focuses on creativity: the possibilities, alternatives and new ideas.
- creative, associative thinking, new ideas, brainstorming, out-of-the-box.
- The Green Hat is creative and generates lots of new ideas without concern for feasibility
- It explores possibilities, alternatives, and new ideas.
- The green hat gives people a safe space in which to think creatively.
- The creative Green Hat comes on when you want to generate fresh ideas and new directions
- New growth and vegetation
- Green Hats excel at devising creative solutions to a problem.
- hey are possibility thinkers who go outside the box for solutions and aren’t afraid to break rules and traditions.
Green hats aren’t intimidated by rules, traditions, or limitations. Like yellow hats, they embrace creative and unusual ideas that could lead to equally singular solutions.
green hats on, we think about the issue from a creative and innovative perspective. If the client insists on the original deadline, why not make a party out of those longer hours? We can dress casually after 5:00 p.m.- maybe in pajamas? That one makes all of us laugh. Then someone suggests bringing pizza in and having a crazy pajama contest.
Blue Hat
1.The Blue Hat is used to manage the thinking process.
- blue hats are compared to movie directors (or project managers!) responsible for making multiple moving parts work in unison.
- structured thinking, high-level overview of the situation, the big picture.
- controls the process of using the other hats and clarifies the objectives. It can also be used to explore the process of implementing an idea.
- The organizing Blue Hat sets objectives, outlines the situation
- defines the problem in the beginning of the meeting and returns at the end to summarize and draw conclusions.
- The sky above or a police officer
directing traffic
- blue hats concentrate on controlling a process. You wear this hat when leading a team meeting or MCing an event.
- cool, related to control and organization of thinking
- The blue hat manages the thinking process during group sessions, allowing for greater harmony between the thought patterns of the other thinking hats
Example: As a project manager, I wear this hat more than any other. Whenever a meeting is called, I spend time beforehand defining the problem (the client has changed their mind about the website color scheme midway through the timeline) and identifying the desired outcome (either a deadline extension or client approval to increase the budget so we can get the extra staff needed to finish on time). After assembling everyone’s ideas, I create an action plan that I can bring to the client.