Dr Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® is a globally renowned tool that will change the way your team thinks and communicates - with real effect and impact. With the Six Thinking Hats®, you will learn to:

• Shift your thinking (and others) from negative to positive
• Shift your thinking from emotional reactions to facts within seconds

The Six Hats approach reduces adversarial thinking and encourages clearer, more effective thinking and idea development

Do you hear people complaining about 'meetings, meetings and more meetings'? Hours upon hours spent debating issues, with very few positive outcomes or problems solved? Often, in this environment, creativity and innovation is stifled and people fear speaking out.

The Six Thinking Hats® approach eradicates situations like this, leading organisations to more effective idea generation and decision making through the use of Parallel Thinking.

Workshop Overview
The workshop includes a mix of teaching and practical exercises. Participants will work in small groups with continual support from the trainer, who has been certified by Dr de Bono to deliver the course. The workshop materials have been developed by Dr Edward de Bono personally, and each delegate is supplied with a comprehensive workbook to provide ongoing reinforcement of the techniques learnt.

Benefits
Dr Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® system is a simple and powerful tool. It will change the way your team thinks by teaching creative problem-solving skills. You and your team will learn how to:
1. Lead shorter, more productive meetings
2. Look at decisions and problems systematically
3. Generate more and better ideas
4. Improve team results
5. Reduce conflict

During the workshop, you will:
• learn to use different approaches to business problems
explore all aspects of each situation and generate alternatives that go far beyond obvious solutions.
• separate fact from opinion
• look fully at both positive and negative options and expose hidden agendas that can sabotage any meeting.
• learn how to stimulate innate creativity
• learn how to turn seemingly insoluble problems into real opportunities.
• leave the workshop with skills that they have practised and can apply immediately on return to the workplace.

Outline
You will understand and learn:
• The nature of thinking
• Why we need to change our behaviour
• Why argument is inadequate
• Introducing the Six Thinking Hats®
• Why very little new thinking is accomplished at meetings
• Tools and techniques focusing on each hat

Using the Six Hats:
• Single use of the Six Hats
• Systematic use of the Six Hats
• Frameworks for structuring meetings and focusing thinking
• How to turn disagreements into positive contributions
• Techniques for opportunity thinking
• Programming meetings for a successful outcome
• Creating the action plan

Who should attend?
Business people who want to improve team-working, hold more productive meetings, generate new ideas and solve problems faster. It will be especially beneficial to the following groups:
• Project / Strategy teams
• Departmental managers and their teams
• Managers and executives who require greater levels of innovation and creativity
• Individual contributors and teams working in highly competitive or changing environments