Overview

Effective communication and decision making are critical to a team’s success. Edward DeBono’s Six Thinking Hats model provides a valuable tool to enhance team innovation, collaboration and creativity. By implementing a unique “parallel thinking” process, the model leverages the metaphor of colored hats to engage team members in constructive, critical analysis and dialogue. Teams that implement the Six Hat Model will benefit from shorter, more effective meetings, generate higher level of creative ideas, and find decision-making a more equitable and thorough process.

Learning Objectives

After this course you will...

  • Appreciate and appropriately apply the black hat style of thinking

  • Understand and implement the critical organization

  • Summarize the unique distinctions between the 6 thinking hats

  • Recognize the limitations of Argument as a conflict resolution technology

  • Embrace the concept of parallel thinking and implement it in Team meetings

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome & Course Logistics

    2. RESOURCES | Outline [download button at the right]

    3. Intro to Six Hat Thinking

    1. White Hat

    2. Red Hat

    3. Black Hat

    4. Yellow Hat

    5. Green Hat

    6. Blue Hat

    1. Book a Coaching Session with DrRuss

About this course

  • $49.00
  • 10 lessons
  • 1 hour of video content

Instructor

Dr. Russ Kinkade

Senior Instructor & Coach

Dr. Kinkade has a B.A. (Psychology) from Cedarville University, a M.Ed. (Counseling Psychology) from Georgia State University, and a Psy.D.in Clinical Psychology from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology. Having spent the first 18 years of his life in Hong Kong, Dr. Kinkade’s cross-cultural experience brings an added dimension to his work. In addition to his private counseling and consulting practice he is also an Adjunct Instructor at Judson University. Dr. Kinkade is active as a corporate trainer, consultant and coach with interests ranging from Presentation Design and Public Speaking to Behavioral Styles [DiSC] and Performance Management [PATH] from a Strengths-based, Purpose-driven approach.