Step 1 - Identify the challenge/opportunity for discussion


Step 2 - Set time frame to achieve end result Step 3 - Facilitate Teal Hat Step 4 - Facilitate Red Hat Step 5 - Facilitate Green Hat Step 6 - Facilitate Purple Hat Step 7 - Facilitate Yellow Hat


TOP TIP: Get your audience moving in order to change their state of thinking. Have five flipcharts located at different points within the room - one for each state!


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Here’s a brief overview of the 6 hats and their different states:


Blue Hat


Control/organisation of thinking process Chairperson role


Orchestrates use of other hats Yellow Hat


Positive thinking/assessment Optimistic and hopeful Entrepreneurial


Red Hat Emotions and feelings


Intuition and hunches - not reasoned logic Green Hat


Creativity and new ideas Concerned with change Experimentation Changing patterns


Teal Hat


Objective/facts and figures Information - clear and unbiased Eliminating interpretations and opinions


Purple Hat Negative aspects


Projecting ideas of possible failure Examine procedures for errors


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