Six thinking shoes - Change your point of view
This method will allow us to explore all perspectives to our challenge by wearing 6 different shoes one at a time to force us to move outside of our habitual thinking style. It's useful to have a lot of different point of view, avoid adversarial thinking and make better decisions.
- The white shoes: information
- The red shoes: intuition and feeling
- The black shoes: risks, difficulties, problem
- The yellow shoes: benefits, feasibility
- The green shoes: new ideas, possibilities
- The blue shoes: managing the thinking
This workshops is inspired by the work of Edward de Bono: the Six Thinking Hats
official website : http://www.edwdebono.com/
1. Blue shoes
How are we doing?
What is the subject? What are we thinking about? What is the goal? Can look at the big picture.
Reflect on this session.
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them
2. White shoes
What do we know?
Focus of facts and data when available - analyze past trends and extrapolate from historical data.
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them
3. Red shoes
What do we feel?
Focus on emotions and feelings - gut reaction.
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them
4. Black shoes
Why it won't work?
Focus on logical negative view - why ideas won't work. What are the risks, the difficulties, the problems?
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them
5. Yellow shoes
Why it will work?
Focus on logical positive view - benefits of a decision and the opportunities that arise from it.
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them
6. Green shoes
What else can we do?
Focus on Creative - out of the box thinking. What are the alternatives?
- Wear your shoes, think and write down your ideas
- Look at other's ideas: discuss, comment and/or rate them