Who May Attend: (Everyone)

Speaker(s): Adam Radziszewski & April Cason

GS1 Industry & Standards Event11 – 15 April 2016 – Jersey CityBuilding Standards to Deliver Business Value

Session: Six Thinking Hats Workshop (Lateral Thinking)

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Anti-Trust Caution

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Dr. Edward de Bono

• M.D., Ph.D., (philosophy, medicine & psychology), Rhodes scholar

• World-renowned consultant to business, governments, schools and industry

• Author of 62 books in 40 languages• Originator of Six Thinking Hats, Lateral

Thinking and Direct Attention Thinking Tools

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6TH: The Basics

• There are six different imaginary hats that you can put on or take off.

• Think of the “hats” as thinking icons.

• Each hat is a different color and represents a different type or mode of thinking.

• We all wear the same hat (do the same type of thinking) at the same time (parallel/lateral thinking)

• When we change hats - we change our thinking.

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Benefits of 6TH

• Provide a common language

• Diversity of thoughts (everyone is involved)

• Reduces confrontations

• Leads to focus and alignment

• Helps with creating, evaluating, and implementing action plans

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6TH in 2 Minutes

https://youtu.be/UZ8vF8HRWE4

https://youtu.be/UZ8vF8HRWE4

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Critical Thinking

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Critical Thinking & Creative Thinking

CRITICAL-Analytical-Judgmental-Selective-Probability-Yes but…

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Traditional vs. Parallel Thinking

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Six Thinking Hats

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White, Red

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Black, Yellow

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Green, Blue

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One needs all hats…

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So how does it work?

• Systematic sequence for flushing out all sides of an issue with a fun and visible metaphor of a hat

• Each hat represents a different direction or type of thinking, identified by a color

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6TH in the InZone!

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What else do we offer

• Private ideation platform space• Innovation strategy development• Design Thinking, Creativity, Lateral Thinking Workshops & Services• Mobile application prototyping• Incubation and Accelerator Expertise - soon• Hackathon Assistance - soon

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gs1.brightidea.comGS1 Innovation Network

Adam RadziszewskiAdam.Radziszewski@gs1.org

April CasonApril.Cason@gs1.org

mailto:Adam.Radziszewski@gs1.orgmailto:April.Cason@gs1.org

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Appendix

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Workshop Agenda

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1. Setup a table in the middle with charts and 6 seats, set up GoPro2. Icebreaker 5 min3. Make hats 5 min (white hats, later colors added to the same hat to indicate the switch)4. Table in the middle, scene, people arrive, topic on the board, usual discussion 10 min5. Audience observations noted6. Show this deck 10 min7. Replay the scenario using the hats, but don’t name them 10 min8. Pause to ask what hat has been used, give prizes9. Group exercise of 6 people per group (facilitators are blue) 10 min

1. Give the topic2. The group goes through all hats (2-3 statements per person per hat)3. Share feelings and observations

10. Hats Summary with their photos (mention platform plus what we offer) 5min

Note: Order used: W, Y, B, R, G (B start, in between, during each, anytime, end)

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Hat Notes

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Hat Notes

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The managerial blue hat (Director) progressively allocates thinking time to each of the six hats including itself. Often the order of thinking would transition in the following way:Blue Hat: Defines and outlines the problem under question and guides the other hats through the thinking process.White Hat: Collects all the facts, data and statistics relevant to the problem. It will then use this information to reach a set of possible logical neutral solutions.Red Hat: Intuitively reflects on the solutions and selects the best course of action based on its feelings and hunches.Black Hat: Pessimistically and realistically confronts the solutions pinpointing holes, dangers, flaws and inadequacies in the proposed plans.Yellow Hat: Looks beyond the black hat’s pessimism and brings to light logical optimistic ideas and plans of action that will help counteract these dangers.Green Hat: Takes solutions and ideas brought forward by the yellow hat and enhances them in a creative, unique and original way that helps ensure that they succeed as planned.Blue Hat: After all hats have had their say, the blue hat continues to circulate between the hats in a logical way. It may for instance focus its attention on the red hat for further intuitive insights based on the green hat’s creative ideas. Or it may ask the white hat to gather more facts and information about the dangers that the black hat brought to mind. After which it may ask the yellow hat to bring forth some logical positive solutions based on this new found knowledge and information.No matter how the blue hat decides to synchronize the thinking process between the hats, it is important to remember that the blue hat is always seeking to obtain a global perspective and understanding of the problem — helping to bring to light the most ideal solution possible.

Blue HatManaging The Thinking

Setting The FocusMaking Summaries

Overviews • ConclusionsAction Plans

Green HatCreative Thinking

Possibilities • Alternatives New Ideas • New Concepts

Overcome Black Hat Problems & Reinforce Yellow

Hat Values

Black HatWhy It May Not Work

Cautions • DangersProblems • Faults Logical Reasons

Must Be Given

Yellow HatWhy It May Work

Values & Benefits(Both Known & Potential)

The Good In ItLogical Reasons Must Be Given

Red HatFeelings & Intuition

Emotions Or Hunches “At This Point”

No Reasons or JustificationKeep It Short

White HatInformation & Data

Neutral & ObjectiveChecked & Believed Facts

Missing Information & Where To Source It

http://blog.iqmatrix.com/six-thinking-hats

http://blog.iqmatrix.com/six-thinking-hats

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