Introduction To The Six Thinking Hats | Foster Creative Discussions

Decision-making is a highly complex process, especially when it includes a group of people, To make a decision, a team goes through a discussion involving opinions offered by different members where some ideas come forward, while others get buried and tossed aside. Often, certain team members will dominate the discussion and impose their ideas and others may struggle for a chance to offer any input.

This may impede one of the greatest advantages of teamwork – the opportunity to get diverse opinions, unique perspectives, and valuable insights from different team members in order to make the best possible decision. 

Different types of individuals will have different approaches to the problem and group discussion, when working properly, should balance these diverse ideas. The best decisions are always made when several ways of viewing the problem are taken into consideration.

However, this is easier said than done, as most people are wired to think and reason in a specific way, mainly depending on their personality type. So, the more optimistic person may approach the problem differently than the cautious one, or the analytical thinker will offer different solutions than the more emotional individual. 

Therefore, trying to consider multiple angles at the same time and align the team where everyone has their own perspective can feel very confusing. This may seem chaotic, and it often is. Therefore, it’s necessary to bring some order into this chaos and six thinking hats is a perfect tool to do it.