De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats - Sheffield MCA · Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats •Action and problem solving in a 1h meeting

Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust

De Bono’s

Six Thinking Hats

Jim Chapman

Jun 2015


Meetings – Don’t you just love them




Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats

• Action and problem solving in a 1h meeting

• Edward De Bono’s ‘6 thinking hats’ tool allows

a group to look at a topic from a variety of

perspectives (instead of here is the problem,

this is the solution).

• By wearing different hats we can direct our

thinking in specific ways.


Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats

• We give 4 minutes to each hat. Avoids prematurely jumping to a negative conclusion, or making a subjective decision without sufficient information

• Everyone must wear the same hat at the same time

• Someone must scribe and someone must keep time – time keeper and note taker

• We have some topics to cover or you can do your own

• This is the sequence:


First green hat – using fresh eyes

• See the issue through the eyes of someone else – what matters to them? What do they need?

• Draw a random profession out of the envelope and spend a minute on it – do this four times

• Use these ideas as a stepping stone onto a new green hat – now focusing back on the issue


I’ve done it many times!

• Worked every time!

• Staff have fun and buy into it

• Stays on track – even with awkward staff

• They own any actions

• Its bottom up

• 30 – 40 minutes well spent

• Great on the Microsystem improvement ramp


5P Assessment

Theme

Global Aim

Change Ideas

Specific Aim

Measures Six Hats

The Dartmouth Microsystem

Improvement Ramp

Effective Meeting Skills



Microsystems - issues

• Implementing a Microsystem culture into your NHS organisation

• Getting started coaching a team

• Spreading Microsystems across the NHS

• Selling MS to already stretched and not always willing NHS staff

• Involving service users / patients in MS

• The UK’s electoral system

• Parking availability at SHU

• Choose your own

• A smoke free NHS


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De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats - Sheffield MCA · Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust Edward De Bono’s six thinking hats •Action and problem solving in a 1h meeting