Moving from vision to action requires effective creative and critical thinking skills.
Six Thinking Hats® is a thinking tool that helps people become more critical and creative in their thinking through the use of the simple mental metaphor—thinking hats. Hats are easy to put on and easy to take off. Each hat is a different color, with each color representing a different thinking ingredient:
• White hat—facts
• Red hat—feelings
• Green hat—creativity
• Yellow hat—benefits
• Black hat—cautions
• Blue hat—process
Six Thinking Hats is also a time-tested tool used by schools, nonprofits, corporations, and governments around the world. A major benefit of six hats thinking is that it provides a framework to focus and broaden thinking. Participants learn how to separate ">emotion from facts, the positive from the negative, and critical thinking from creative thinking. The method helps to put opinions aside so stronger solutions can be developed, without argument.
When groups use the tool together, they strengthen their collaboration skills. Each person is focused on using the same thinking tool, at the same time, on the same challenge. Thinking is much more thorough and complete. It includes each person's thinking—his or her unique point of view.
Who should attend: This fast-paced, hands-on course will appeal to a whole new generation of policy makers, business leaders, entrepreneurs, nonprofit thought leaders, educators, students, and people who are discovering Dr. Edward de Bono's methods for the first time. If you need to inject a solid dose of the future in your workday or personal life, then plan to attend.
What you'll learn: Participants will learn a framework to think through any situation. Working on futures projects requires people with the ability to forecast the future, identify value, deal with risks, sift through never ending mountains of information, end the idea killer habit that shuts down new possibilities, and trust gut instincts. We will dive into each of these areas.
How this new knowledge can be applied: This tool can help people be better prepared to participate effectively in the future—which means embracing changes and unlearning old habits and ways in order to learn new skills and new ways.
Lynda Curtin: One of only 37 de Bono Thinking Systems Master Trainers worldwide, whose corporate clients have included Boeing, Naval War College, HP, and Johnson & Johnson. Her latest effort has been to launch a new business division—de Bono for Schools.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
$179 Members/$229 nonmembers