Unit 1
Introduction to Small Businesses
1.2 Showing Enterprise
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• To understand the 6 thinking hats theory.
• To apply appropriate creating thinking
techniques to solve problems
All students will identify the key features of each
thinking hat
Most students will understand how creative thinking
techniques can be used to solve problems
Some students will use creative thinking techniques to
successfully solve problems
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Objectives and Outcomes
• What is lateral thinking?
• What is blue skies thinking?
• What does the term “competitive
advantage” mean?
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Creativity Recap
• When you completed the chocolate bar
activity last lesson, did you find you missed
out any important features?
• This often happens with blue skies
thinking
• One solution in the 6 thinking hats
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6 Thinking Hats
GCSE Business Studies Unit 1 Introduction To Small Businesses
The 6 Hats
Information
Positive
Emoional
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Negative
Each person should
put on one of the
thinking hats, and
consider the problem
from a specific
perspective
Creative
Big Picture
The negative thinker
What is wrong with
this?
What are the points of
caution?
What could some of the
difficulties be?
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BLACK HAT
The positive thinker
Benefits and feasibility
What are the good
points?
What are the different
values?
What are the reasons
why an idea will work?
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YELLOW HAT
The Fact Finder
What facts and
information available
and needed?
What information do
we have?
What other facts do we
know?
How do we get the
information we need?
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WHITE HAT
The creative thinker
Alternatives and
creative ideas
Are there other ways to
do this?
What else could we
do?What are the
possibilities?
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GREEN HAT
The emotional thinker
Feelings and hunches
What do I feel?
Which idea do I like
best?
What do I feel about
this idea?
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RED HAT
The Big Picture hat
Organising and
managing thinking
What are we thinking
about?
What thinking has been
done?
What do we want?
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BLUE HAT
You need to get into groups of 2 or 3
• Scenario: Imagine you are stranded on a desert island.
You have been stuck on the Island for a couple of days
and no one has come to the rescue yet. You need to
think of a way to:
• Let people know you are there,
• Try and escape
• Survive the next few days.
You have the following resources at your dispersal.
Bed sheet
5 metres of rope
Pile of stones
Bucket
Ladder
Masking tape
Music Player
Scissors
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Enterprise Task
• You now know all about creative thinking
techniques.
• You must work as a team, and use some of these
creative thinking techniques to find the most
successful solution.
• Will you..
– Write down every possibility, and then decide on the
best? (Blue Skies Thinking)
– Think completely out of the box and come up with
something new and original (Lateral Thinking)
– Consider all possibilities using the 6 thinking hats
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Creative Thinking
• Choose one of the 6 thinking hats.
• Create an A4 poster on ONE hat
• Include
– The hat’s name
– The hat’s perspective
– Some questions the hat may ask.
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Homework