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Lateral Thinking - Coggle Diagram

- - - - With this thinking hat you focus on the data available. Look at the information you have, and see what you can learn from it.
      - Look for gaps in your knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them.
      - This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data
    - - 'Wearing' the red hat, you look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion.
      - Try to think how other people will react emotionally.
      - Try to understand the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
    - - Using black hat thinking, look at all the bad points of the decision.
      - Look at it cautiously and defensively
      - Try to see why it might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan.
      - It allows you to eliminate them, alter them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them.
      - It can also help you to spot fatal flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action.
      - Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans 'tougher' and more resilient.
    - - The yellow hat helps you to think positively.
      - It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it.
      - Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.
    - - The Green Hat stands for creativity.
      - This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem.
      - It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas.
    - - The Blue Hat stands for process control
      - This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings.
      - When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking.
      - When contingency plans are needed, they will ask for Black Hat thinking, etc.
- - - - Enjoys exploring the problem space;
      - Likes to examine the details associated with the challenge
      - Likes to make sure he or she has a clear understanding of the problem
      - Prefers a methodical approach to problem solving
      - Likes to gather information
      - May suffer from ‘analysis paralysis
    - - Likes to gather information
      - Enjoys researching ideas
      - Likes to focus on the details
      - Tends to think and solve problems in a structures way
      - May over analyze a situation
    - - Likes to look at the big pictures
      - Enjoys toying with ideas and possibilities
      - Likes to stretch his or her imagination
      - Enjoys thinking in more global and abstract terms
      - May take a more intuitive approach to problem solving
      - May overlook the details
    - - Enjoys putting together workable solutions
      - Likes to examine the pluses and minuses of an idea
      - Likes to compare competing solutions
      - Enjoys thinking about, and planning, the steps to implement an idea
      - Enjoys analyzing potential solutions
      - Can get stuck in developing the perfect soluition.
    - - Likes to see things happen
      - Enjoys giving structure to ideas so that they can become a reality
      - Enjoys seeing ideas come to fruition
      - Likes to focus on ideas and solutions that he or she feels are workable
      - Likes the ‘Nike’ approach to problem solving (i.e., ‘Just do it’)
      - May leap to action too quickly