Meetings
Keep discussions
focused and productive.
Explore Ideas
Six Thinking Hats
Explore in all directions.
Clarify. Explore. Evaluate. Decide.
What is Six Thinking Hats?
Think like a leader.
Research suggests that around 70% of people
expect others to think in much the same way they do.
Thus, most people think about a problem or a situation
believing that they can predict the rest of the team and stakeholders.
At best this can make them blinkered and shallow.
At worst they trample over the opinions and feelings of others.
Six Thinking Hats encourages you to deliberately switch perspectives
so you can explore facts, feelings, risks, benefits, creativity, and process separately.
When should I use it?
Ideal for conversations,
decisions, and problem solving.
Decision Making
Explore multiple
viewpoints before deciding.
Problem Solving
Understand situations
from different angles.
Innovation
Generate fresh ideas
and possibilities.
Strategy
Explore opportunities,
risks, and assumptions.
Difficult Conversations
Reduce conflict by
structuring discussion.
The Six Hats
Six ways of looking
at the same situation.
Stage 0
PREPARE
Get ready for sessions by deciding on
your focus, your aims, your boundaries,
your facts and who is going to be affected.
White Hat
Facts and Information
What do we know? What do we need to know?
Red Hat
Feelings and Intuition
What is our emotional reaction?
Black Hat
Risks and Cautions
What could go wrong?
Yellow Hat
Benefits and Value
What could go right?
Green Hat
Creativity and Possibilities
What other ideas are possible?
Blue Hat
Process and Control
How should we organise our thinking?
Stage 7
REPORT
There are a number of reporting options.
Alongside options for making use of social media.
Six Hats Coach
A coach helps you
to learn the method.
The Six Hats Coach helps you understand each hat,
practise the technique, and apply it to real situations.
- Learn each hat
- See examples and stories
- Understand when to use it
- Apply the method to your own problems
Why is this free?
Experience what an
app is like before joining.
We want users to feel confident about joining -
and enthusiastic about what FreeThought offers.
By building on ChatGPT GPTs,
we are able to keep membership affordable.
And we give you this example to make sure a
ChatGPT GPT will run properly on your device.
We hope that you come to feel excited about GPTs as we do.
We believe that in a world of growing complexity, uncertainty, and
competing viewpoints, FreeThought techniques are more important than ever.
Included with membership
Six Hat Thinking.
For 35 CHF per year, membership includes the
Six Hat Thinking app and the Six Hat thinking Coach.
35 CHF
per year
- Six Hat Thinking app
- Six Hat Thinking Coach app
- Current member apps
- Future member apps
- Occasional webinars