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Software for the Mind • CoRT for schools. The de Bono Group Six Thinking Hats are trademarked and the property of Dr. Edward de Bono and de Bono Thinking Systems. This PPT is for meeting facilitation only. No part of this may be reproduced or used in training. Six Thinking Hats was created by Edward de Bono, and published in his book of the same name. In Six Thinking Hats, Edward de Bono shows how meetings can be transformed to produce quick, decisive results every time.


'Okay everyone, I want you to put on your thinking caps and try to come up with ways to solve this problem!'

Surely you have heard - or even said - something like that before. A 'thinking cap' is an imaginary hat that supposedly helps you focus your thinking. What really focuses you is you, but using the thinking cap as a mindset can be very helpful.

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Edward de Bono came up with different kinds of thinking caps that one might use. His Six Thinking Hats book outlines both different modes of thinking and strategies to use these thinking hats in the business world. I want to take this concept and apply it to the classroom.


Be sure to check out our original business article on Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats!

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The Six Thinking Hats can be used with parallel thinking (or lateral thinking) as a way for people to focus on a specific type of thinking all at the same time. Everyone wears the same thinking hat and pools ideas, and then all change to a new thinking hat together. Parallel thinking is an excellent strategy to use when trying to streamline a discussion, but also is a way to help students acquire and develop different thinking skills.

Here are a couple of ways to show the different thinking strategies of each of the thinking hats. Use as introduction, reinforcement, reminders, or review.

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  • The White Hat statement represents facts without interpretation.
  • Our sales have increased each of the last three years to college students in Texas and have decreased to professors in Ohio.
  • Our customer survey last month indicated a 2% preference for the green product by men ages 25-35.
  • What does the balance sheet indicate?
  • We reached 10% of retailers; 12% took our product; 40% returned it.
  • The Red Hat represents the emotional response. The emotion can apply to either the speaker or the subject of the statement. The Red Hat makes feelings visible and legitimizes emotion.
  • All this talk of revenue loss is making me sick.
  • This new feature set is designed to delight our customers.
  • There is a feeling this new organization will not make a difference. Let's imagine our decisions today can impact our new direction.
  • I feel we are being bullied into an agreement we do not want.
  • The Black Hat is the critical thinking and looks at 'what's wrong with this picture?' It needs to be truthful and factual without judgement. Black hat is not concerned with problem solving--only with pointing out the problem.
  • If we don't show the value to the user, they won't pay a premium.
  • Rising wages will force up production costs and put us out of business.
  • The numbers from the questionnaire may be underestimated because not everyone interpreted the question the same way.
  • As far as I know, that is an assumption.
  • The Yellow Hat, opposite of the Black Hat, puts forth the benefits of an idea. In the case of new ideas, it should always be used before Black Hat.
  • Bundling the product provides a cost incentive to customers and could improve revenues.
  • The organization provides more direct access to senior managers.
  • Design reviews could help us find bugs earlier in the process and save development and testing costs.
  • Lowering prices could make the product more accessible to a wider audience.
  • The Green Hat is for creative thinking represents new ideas. This is the place to encourage 'out of the box' thinking.
  • Each artist could offer a photo of the work in progress as an incentive to buy the piece during the show opening.
  • We could introduce color as an option.
  • We could try including design reviews and code reviews into our development process.
  • We could provide the user with multiple entry points to improve discoverability.
  • The Blue Hat manages the process of the discussion and thinking. It sets the rules at the beginning and provides the summaries and conclusions at the end.
  • We'll start with White and Blue hats, then move to Green, Yellow, Red, and Black in that order.
  • Let's hold off on Black Hat thinking for now.
  • So we've decided to continue with the Mackey project but drop the Stower effort until we have further data.
  • Let's go around the room once and get at least one new idea from everyone.