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Title: De Bono


1
De Bonos Thinkard Game
  • Dan Feliciano
  • Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt
  • Dan_at_DanFeliciano.com
  • www.DanFeliciano.com

2
Why Bother with Thinkards
  • To facilitate Thinking
  • Your brain is the most important thing you have.
  • Many organizations market value is a function of
    their ability to think
  • Every employees ability to think
  • Thinkard games is about Thinking and learning to
    think

3
Why Dont We Like Thinking?
  • Thinking is hard work
  • Thinking is boring
  • Thinking is someone elses job
  • I dont get paid to think, therefore I dont get
    paid much!

4
Thinkard Games
  • Memory Judgment similar to Goldfish
  • Alternative stories - draw four cards and
    construct a story using the four cards in the
    order they where drawn
  • Logical Sequence draw five cards and place them
    in a logical sequence, explain the logic
  • Design a Tourist Attraction five cards are
    drawn, design a tourist attraction based on the
    five cards. Your scored on the number of cards
    used.
  • Problem-solving
  • And tens more, if not hundreds

5
Using Thinkards to Demonstrate Problem-Solving
  • As you know, there are many solutions to a
    problem
  • If you can only think of one solution for a
    problem, shame on you
  • Many managers and people get hung-up on a
    specific solution to solve a problem.
  • Why is that?

6
Problem-Solver Game Using de Bonos Thinkards
  • Using the five cards you receive
  • Solve the following problem
  • A person has fallen into a river and is being
    carried downstream. Create a story using the
    cards you have about how could you rescue the
    person.
  • The more cards you use the more points your
    receive.
  • You have 10 minutes to write your story on the
    Poster board.
  • Select a person to explain how your team would
    rescue this person
  • Do Not write on the cards!
  • Each team has a different set of cards to solve
    the same problem
  • The Thinkards will be rotated to most of the teams

7
Problem-Solver Rules
  • Create a story, using the five cards, telling how
    you would rescue a person who has fallen into a
    stream
  • Write it on the poster board
  • Use as many cards as possible
  • Dont let the other teams hear your solution.
  • You have 10 minutes
  • Dont Write on the Thinkards

8
Present Your Results
  • Explain why your story / solution is different
    than another teams
  • Is your solution better than the other teams?

9
Dont Accept One Solution
  • When problem-solving
  • Dont allow your teams or employees to present
    one solution
  • There are multiple solutions to every problem
  • Have your teams present 3 or more solutions /
    alternatives and present the pros and cons to
    each solution

10
Summary
  • Your brain is a muscle and like all other
    muscles, it requires exercise to maintain its
    strength
  • Playing games with your teams such as Thinkards
    will keep your team thinking
  • Thinkards is also a simple way of getting people
    to realize there are multiple solutions to a
    problem, not one theirs

11
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