Assignment: CREATIVE TEAMS

Team Enablers

Assignment details

• What hat color is most comfortable for you?– I found Green colour Hat : Creative

• What is the least comfortable for you?– I found Blue Hat Colour: Organised

• In your next team interaction, try on several different "hats" and see how they feel. Briefly describe the experience.

Our experience

• Topic to brain storm: How to address sleep issue because of stress.

• We found people were very much comfortable with green colour.

• People with black colour were very critical eg for every option they were challenging which was not required in brainstorming.

• When we ask team members to put on blue hat, then we were able to identify 2-3 ways to adapt for each member– eg. I pick up Supporting wife in kitchen, smiling on

ourselves & Hang out with happy people as action points.

– I found that blue colour hat should be used towards the end of brainstorming to ensure application of key learnings.

Our experience

• When we ask them to wear yellow hat, than participants mainly looked at positive sides of the options.

• Somewhere I felt that we need to keep a balance in black & yellow hat.

• We could not do much with red hat, as participants were more in the reasoning mood & hence emotions were on back seat.

Our experience

Conclusion

• We found 6 hat principle works well in terms of generating ideas & making action plan.

• The exercise was very fruitful & we were able to generate approx 125 ideas to address the issue of sleep problem due to stress.