Objectives and Outcomes

Participants in the Six Thinking Hats ®
course will show evidence of the following:

- A marked tendency to identify themselves as thinkers

- Confidence to cope with and improve their environments

- Competencies enabling them to:

• identify and solve problems
• propose alternative solutions
• predict the consequences of each
• assess the usefulness of each set of
• select the best alternative
• implement it
• evaluate it

- Competencies enabling them to:

• develop a habit of perceiving events and situations as opportunities
• identify the benefits/desired outcomes
• identify the risks/dangers of pursuing
• design ways to minimize risks and
• select opportunities based on weighing the benefits against remaining risks
• design plans for pursuing a selected opportunity
• assess and reevaluate plans in progress

- Competencies enabling them to:

• understand and take on the facilitator
• identify and articulate other people's points of view

Internationally Applied

The Six Thinking Hats® method is widely used at Prudential Insurance, the largest insurance group in the world. In fact, images of the six colored hats are woven into the carpets at their Canadian headquarters.

Du Pont, which now has a formal center for creativity and innovation,has trained creativity facilitators and uses the Six Hats system extensively.

IBM has certified 15 instructors to teach Six Thinking Hats® to its employees.

A division of Siemens reduced product development time by 50%.

ABB was able to reduce a series of multinational project meetings from 30 days to 2 days.

After learning de Bono creative thinking skills, fights between miners at a South African mine were reduced from 210 per month, to 4.

Leading organizations such as Eli Lilly, Federal Express, and Honeywell are reaping the benefits generated by Six Hats methods.