6 Thinking Hats

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6 Thinking Hats

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Welcome to 6 Thinking Hats for Girl Scouts
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Interactive Web Experience

• Ensures engagement through up to 30 ongoing
  interactions
• An interaction is generated at least every 2-3
  minutes
• All participants are called upon
• Interaction is spread evenly
• Commit to bringing what you learn today out of
  the Webinar workshop, and into your work with
  your colleagues

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Ground Rules

• Turn off cell phones, email and other
  distractions
• Use 6 to mute your line, 6 to unmute (please do
  not put us on hold) Rich is this correct?
• Be prepared to be called on randomly and to
  respond
• Change your status to Step Away if you need to
  step away Use web tools to communicate
• Participate, participate, participate
• Keep a scratch pad writing implement nearby
• Have Fun!

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Why are you here?What do you know about the 6
Thinking Hats?
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How many of you have experienced

• Different parties deadlocked on an issue, causing
  delays in decisions and actions?
• Challenges making complex decisions?
• A nagging feeling that you havent considered an
  issue from all angles?
• Working with a group who is experiencing a biased
  view of a particular issue, failing to see it
  from all angles?
• Surprised when an unexpected kink arises in
  your best laid plans?
• Failing to appropriately plan?
• Failure to anticipate/mitigate hurdles, potholes
  or risks?

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Learning Outcomes

• Describe the 6 Thinking Hats Method
• Summarize what each of the 6 Thinking Hats stands
  for
• Articulate 3 reasons that the 6 Thinking Hats
  method is effective
• Discuss ways in which to use the 6 Thinking Hats
  approach
• Share how the 6 Thinking Hats technique can be
  used to consider and address different types of
  problems
• Identify how the 6 Thinking Hats technique can be
  used in various combinations

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I myself have 12 hats, and each one represents a
different personality. Why just be yourself?
Author Margaret Atwood
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One very important aspect of motivation is the
willingness to stop and to look at things that no
one else has bothered to look at. This simple
process of focusing on things that are normally
taken for granted is a powerful source of
creativity. Creator of Six Thinking Hats,
Edward de Bono
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Organization Planning
Pros Benefits
Drawbacks Cautions
Intuition Thinking
Information Data
New Ideas Solutions
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Lets Practice

• In the US it is estimated that 10 of adolescent
  girls have an eating disorder. In order to
  combat the problem, a school curriculum is being
  developed for a community outside Los Angeles, in
  which girls attend special classes and read books
  and articles which address the influence of media
  on body image/eating disorders.
• What facts do you know about this issue?
• What is your gut reaction about this idea?
• Why is it a good idea?
• Why might it not work?
• What are some alternatives or new possibilities?

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Congratulations we just utilized the 6 Hats
Thinking Method

• What facts do you know about this issue?
• What is my gut reaction about this idea?
• Why is it a good idea?
• Why might it not work?
• What are some alternatives or new possibilities?

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Lets take a tour of the Hats Green Hat

• Ideas, alternative, possibilities
• Solutions
• Suggestions
• Proposals

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Lets take a tour of the Hats Green Hat

• Soda and fast food corporations market directly
  to children.
• Pediatricians recently lobbied the Federal Trade
  Commission (FTC) to better regulate the industry,
  but the food companies have spent millions
  lobbying against stricter guidelines.
• What are some new and creative ways to solve this
  problem?

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Yellow Hat

• Positives, plus points
• Logical reasons
• Why an idea is useful

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Lets try the Yellow Hat

• What are the benefits of providing school-based
  health care and other services to children?

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Black Hat

• Difficulties, weaknesses, cautions
• Spotting the risks
• Logical
• Consequences
• why it might not work

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Lets Try the Black Hat

• Identify the drawbacks of a state tax on
  sweetened beverages to help reduce dental decay
  and obesity.

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Red Hat

• Intuition, hunches, gut instinct
• My feelings right now
• Feelings can change
• Not about reasons
• Hunches
• Warm or cold

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Lets try the Red Hat

• Annotate the screen with your feelings about this
  picture

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White Hat

• Information and data
• Neutral and objective
• What do I know?
• What do I need to find out?
• What questions will I ask?
• How will I get the information I need?

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Lets try the White Hat

• What information do you have about this picture?
• What more do you want to know?

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Blue Hat

• How does the Six Thinking Hat process work?
• What thinking is needed?
• Organizing the thinking
• Planning for action
• Check-ins summaries
• Which hat is worn next?

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Small Team Activity

• You will be assigned a challenge
• Come up with an idea or solution to address the
  challenge
• Select 2-3 Thinking Hats youd apply to evaluate
  your idea ex
• Blue White create structure for a project
• Green Yellow sales and influencing
• How would you sequence the hats in order to
  evaluate your solution or idea?
• Avoid solving the problem
• Theres no right or wrong - this is just about
  expanding our creativity

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Team 1

• Stress and Depression are related to smoking in
  girls. Girls typically begin to smoke because of
  feelings of maturity, independence, sociability.

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Team 2

• Young girls get targeted by bullies for being
  different or because they dont fight back.
  Often, girls who are bullied dont know how to
  stop the bullying, so they go along with it.

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Team 3

• Peer pressure for girls to fit in is so strong,
  they can lose touch with their innate sense of
  self-worth. Girls are often judged by other girls
  on their looks, clothing, friends and socio
  economic status.

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Team 4

• Children watch on average 937 hours of television
  each year since 1970, obesity rates have more
  than quadrupled in girls ages 6 to 11. Billions
  are spent annually on diseases related to
  physical inactivity.

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Team 5

• A survey recently asked 12- and 13-year-old
  girls, "Have you had a bad experience online that
  made you nervous about going to school the next
  day?" More than one in four 12- and 13-year-old
  girls said yes - the highest rate of any other
  group. Another survey found that when girls ages
  8-12 used online media heavily, they had fewer
  good feelings about their friendships

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Activity debrief

• Describe your Challenge and your Solution
• What Thinking Hat or Hats did you select to
  evaluate and strengthen your solution?
• How did you sequence them?
• What was the outcome/What would you do next?

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Wrap-Up Commitments

• One important take-away you learned today
• One way youll use the 6 Thinking Hats in the
  next week
• One thing about the 6 Thinking Hats youll share
  with others in your Council

Place a check-mark by the one you want to share.
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Thank you!