The Six Thinking Hats
The Six Thinking Hats Exercise
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AN EXERCISE TO IMPLEMENT THE SIX THINKING HAT TECHNIQUE TO FACILITATE QUICK AND EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING IN A TEAM August 12, 2012
The Six Thinking Hats Exercise
Focused Problem Statement
In today’s times a lot of organizations have started realizing the need to cultivate the culture of social responsibility in their organizations. Towards this end, they have made CSR activities an integral part of their employee performance evaluation schemes. However India lags behinds as far as CSR activities is concerned. So our focused problem statement is –
“The
Indian government should make CSR activities mandatory for all organizations operating in
India. Discuss.”
The Six thinking Hat Exercise
We conducted the six thinking hat exercise using the following steps: Step 1: We took a vote in favor of the idea presented. Step 2: Selection of blue hat and deciding the sequence of hats and the timing used for each of the hats Step 3: The hat sequence and timing was followed as directed by the blue hat member. Step 4: The Six Thinking hat exercise ended a vote was again taken in favor of the idea presented. Step 5: The blue hat concluded the meeting. Next we shall discuss the detailed process.
Step 1: Prelim inary voting in favor of the idea.
The initial votes were 5 in favor of making CSR activities in organizations mandatory and 5 against the idea.
Step 2: Role of Blue Hat
The Six Thinking Hats Exercise | 8/12/2012
Aditya Bagri was selected as the blue hat. He decided on the following sequence and timing for the hats
Sequence Hats 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 White Hat Red Hat Yellow Hat Black Hat Yellow Hat Green Hat Red Hat Timing 2 min 1 min 2 min 3 min 3 min 3 min 1 min
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Rationale For the choice and Sequence of hats WHITE HAT: We started off with the “WHITE HAT” because we wanted to first think about the topic objectively, try and collate all the data that we had available on the topic before we went into a
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AN EXERCISE TO IMPLEMENT THE SIX THINKING HAT TECHNIQUE TO FACILITATE QUICK AND EFFECTIVE DECISION MAKING IN A TEAM August 12, 2012
The Six Thinking Hats Exercise
Focused Problem Statement
In today’s times a lot of organizations have started realizing the need to cultivate the culture of social responsibility in their organizations. Towards this end, they have made CSR activities an integral part of their employee performance evaluation schemes. However India lags behinds as far as CSR activities is concerned. So our focused problem statement is –
“The
Indian government should make CSR activities mandatory for all organizations operating in
India. Discuss.”
The Six thinking Hat Exercise
We conducted the six thinking hat exercise using the following steps: Step 1: We took a vote in favor of the idea presented. Step 2: Selection of blue hat and deciding the sequence of hats and the timing used for each of the hats Step 3: The hat sequence and timing was followed as directed by the blue hat member. Step 4: The Six Thinking hat exercise ended a vote was again taken in favor of the idea presented. Step 5: The blue hat concluded the meeting. Next we shall discuss the detailed process.
Step 1: Prelim inary voting in favor of the idea.
The initial votes were 5 in favor of making CSR activities in organizations mandatory and 5 against the idea.
Step 2: Role of Blue Hat
The Six Thinking Hats Exercise | 8/12/2012
Aditya Bagri was selected as the blue hat. He decided on the following sequence and timing for the hats
Sequence Hats 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 White Hat Red Hat Yellow Hat Black Hat Yellow Hat Green Hat Red Hat Timing 2 min 1 min 2 min 3 min 3 min 3 min 1 min
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Rationale For the choice and Sequence of hats WHITE HAT: We started off with the “WHITE HAT” because we wanted to first think about the topic objectively, try and collate all the data that we had available on the topic before we went into a