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MANAGEMENT OF ORAL COMMUNICATIONBOOK REVIEW-SIX THINKING HAT
GROUP NUMBER-8SUBMITTED BY KANIKA BATRA 10609087GAURAV PASSY 10609085DIVYA BHATIA 10609083MEGHA KALA 10609093
CREATIVE THINKING
TEACHING THINKING AS A SKILL
WRITER OF 62 BOOKS
LECTURED IN 54 COUNTRIES
INTRODUCED CONCEPTS
LATERAL THINKING
PARALLEL THINKING
What do you feel about the suggestion?
What are your gut reactions?
What intuitions do you have?
Don’t think too long or too hard.
The information seeking hat.
What are the facts?
What information is available? What is relevant?
When wearing the white hat we are neutral in our thinking.
The sunshine hat. It is positive and
constructive. It is about
effectiveness and getting a job done.
What are the benefits, the advantages?
The caution hat. In black hat the
thinker points out errors or pit-falls.
What are the risks or dangers involved?
Identifies difficulties and problems.
This is the creative mode of thinking.
Green represents growth and movement.
In green hat we look to new ideas and solutions.
Lateral thinking wears a green hat.
The control hat, organising thinking itself.
Sets the focus, calls for the use of other hats.
Monitors and reflects on the thinking processes used.
Blue is for planning.
EXPLORES DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES TOWARDS
SITUATIONS
HATS DEFINE ROLES
HATS INDICATE EMOTIONAL STATES AS WELL AS
FRAMES OF MIND
ALL HATS ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT
Facilitation of meetings (both live & virtual)
Leadership development Innovative Thinking Problem solving and decision making Project management Preparation for discussions New products and new designs Marketing
Prudential Insurance, the largest insurance group in the world, uses the Six Hats method widely. Images of the six colored hats are woven into carpets at the Canadian headquarters.
IBM used the Six Hats method as part of its core training for 40,000 managers worldwide.
DuPont's Center for Creativity and Innovation has trained facilitators and uses the Six Hats process extensively.
Honeywell has 12 certified in-house instructors who train employees in multiple sites across the U.S.
Motorola certified 15 instructors in their new business development department