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6 Thinking Hats
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Welcome to 6 Thinking Hats for
Girl Scouts
What you need:
Own computer
Headset
[insert instructor’s name]
[Insert date]
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Interactive Web Experience
• Ensures engagement through up to 30 ongoing
interactions
• An interaction is generated at least every 2-3 minutes
• All participants are called upon
• Interaction is spread evenly
• Commit to bringing what you learn today out of the
Webinar workshop, and into your work with your
colleagues
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Ground Rules
• Turn off cell phones, email and other distractions
• Use *6 to mute your line, #6 to unmute (please do not put
us on hold) [Rich: is this correct?]
• Be prepared to be called on randomly and to respond
• Change your status to Step Away if you need to step away
Use web tools to communicate
• Participate, participate, participate
• Keep a scratch pad & writing
implement nearby
• Have Fun!
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Other
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Why are you here?
What do you know about the 6
Thinking Hats?
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How many of you
have experienced:
• Different parties deadlocked on an issue, causing delays in decisions
and actions?
• Challenges making complex decisions?
• A nagging feeling that you haven’t considered an issue from all angles?
• Working with a group who is experiencing a biased view of a particular
issue, failing to see it from all angles?
• Surprised when an unexpected “kink” arises in your best laid plans?
• Failing to appropriately plan?
• Failure to anticipate/mitigate hurdles, potholes or risks?
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Learning Outcomes
• Describe the 6 Thinking Hats Method
• Summarize what each of the 6 Thinking Hats stands for
• Articulate 3 reasons that the 6 Thinking Hats method is
effective
• Discuss ways in which to use the 6 Thinking Hats approach
• Share how the 6 Thinking Hats technique can be used to
consider and address different types of problems
• Identify how the 6 Thinking Hats technique can be used in
various combinations
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“I myself have 12 hats, and each one
represents a different personality. Why
just be yourself?” Author Margaret Atwood
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“One very important aspect of motivation is
the willingness to stop and to look at things
that no one else has bothered to look at. This
simple process of focusing on things that are
normally taken for granted is a powerful
source of creativity.”
Creator of Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono
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Organization &
Planning
Pros; Benefits
Drawbacks;
Cautions
Intuition; Thinking
Information & Data
New Ideas &
Solutions
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Let’s Practice
In the US it is estimated that 10% of adolescent girls have an
eating disorder. In order to combat the problem, a school
curriculum is being developed for a community outside Los
Angeles, in which girls attend special classes and read books
and articles which address the influence of media on body
image/eating disorders.
• What facts do you know about this issue?
• What is your gut reaction about this idea?
• Why is it a good idea?
• Why might it not work?
• What are some alternatives or new possibilities?
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Congratulations – we just utilized
the 6 Hats Thinking Method
• What is my gut reaction about this idea?
• Why might it not work?
• What are some alternatives or new
possibilities?
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Let’s take a tour of the Hats:
Green Hat
• Ideas, alternative,
possibilities
• Solutions
• Suggestions
• Proposals
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Let’s take a tour of the Hats:
Green Hat
Soda and fast food corporations
market directly to children.
Pediatricians recently lobbied the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
to better regulate the industry,
but the food companies have
spent millions lobbying against
stricter guidelines.
What are some new and creative
ways to solve this problem?
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Yellow Hat
• Positives, plus points
• Logical reasons
• Why an idea is useful
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Let’s try the Yellow Hat
What are the benefits of
providing school-based
health care and other
services to children?
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Black Hat
• Difficulties, weaknesses,
cautions
• Spotting the risks
• Logical
• Consequences
• “why it might not work”
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Let’s Try the Black Hat
Identify the drawbacks of a
state tax on sweetened
beverages to help reduce
dental decay and obesity.
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Red Hat
• Intuition, hunches, gut
instinct
• My feelings right now
• Feelings can change
• Not about reasons
• Hunches
• Warm or cold
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Let’s try the Red Hat
Annotate the
screen with your
feelings about
this picture
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White Hat
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Information and data
Neutral and objective
What do I know?
What do I need to find
out?
• What questions will I ask?
• How will I get the
information I need?
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Let’s try the White Hat
• What information do you
have about this picture?
• What more do you want to
know?
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Blue Hat
• How does the Six Thinking
Hat process work?
• What thinking is needed?
• Organizing the thinking
• Planning for action
• Check-ins; summaries
• Which hat is worn next?
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Small Team Activity
• You will be assigned a challenge
• Come up with an idea or solution to address the challenge
• Select 2-3 Thinking Hats you’d apply to evaluate your idea; ex:
– Blue + White = create structure for a project
– Green + Yellow = sales and influencing
• How would you sequence the hats in order to evaluate your
solution or idea?
– Avoid solving the problem
• There’s no right or wrong - this is just about expanding our
creativity
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Team 1
• Stress and Depression are related to smoking in girls. Girls
typically begin to smoke because of feelings of maturity,
independence, sociability.
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Team 2
• Young girls get targeted by bullies for being different or
because they don’t fight back. Often, girls who are bullied
don’t know how to stop the bullying, so they go along with
it.
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Team 3
• Peer pressure for girls to fit in is so strong, they can lose
touch with their innate sense of self-worth. Girls are often
judged by other girls on their looks, clothing, friends and
socio economic status.
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Team 4
• Children watch on average 937 hours of television each
year; since 1970, obesity rates have more than quadrupled
in girls ages 6 to 11. Billions are spent annually on diseases
related to physical inactivity.
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Team 5
• A survey recently asked 12- and 13-year-old girls, "Have
you had a bad experience online that made you nervous
about going to school the next day?"
More than one in four 12- and 13-year-old girls said yes the highest rate of any other group. Another survey found
that when girls ages 8-12 used online media heavily, they
had fewer good feelings about their friendships
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Activity debrief
• Describe your Challenge and your Solution
• What Thinking Hat or Hats did you select to evaluate and
strengthen your solution?
• How did you sequence them?
• What was the outcome/What would you do next?
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Wrap-Up & Commitments
• One important take-away you learned today
• One way you’ll use the 6 Thinking Hats in the next week
• One thing about the 6 Thinking Hats you’ll share with
others in your Council
Place a check-mark by the one you want to share.
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Thank you!
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