Six thinking hats-A training intervention in soft skills

Decision Making is the essence of any profession, especially business and management. Choices, decisions and the consequences or results constitute the hall mark of a manager's personal and professional life. Making career choices, selecting the profile of a company, investment decisions are sometimes baffling and put a manager in a state of indecision. Infact, these are the occasions when a manager has to think in a rational, pragmatic and methodical way to arrive at good decisions. Managers rely on a set of decision making tools that are scientific, practical, rational and methodical in all respects.

It is rightly said that confusion is the biggest enemy of one's thinking. Thinking big should be preceded by thinking good. Thinking good always leads to good and effective decision making. Thinking good encompasses different facets of being clear, rational, logical, factual and emotional. Many a time, individuals take decisions that do not have a 360 degree perspective as a result of which they encounter problems, bottlenecks, opposition, discouragement to their ideas and plans. Sometimes, it could be the business or the projects. The challenge before a person or a professional or a business is to take a decision which is foolproof and failsafe. There are numerous techniques which help a manager in decision making but may not address a broad spectrum of views.

Six Thinking Hats is a powerful tool in decision making followed by many individuals and organizations the world over. It is propounded by the famous author Edward De Bono in his widely acclaimed book of the same title ‘Six Thinking Hats’. Six Thinking Hats is very simple to understand, implement and reap good results. This decision making tool could be used by individuals, managers or organizations to address a plethora of problems and issues, both personal and organizational.

The importance of Six Thinking Hats in decision making and its efficacy in personal, professional and organizational matters-Problems or issues

Benefits of Six Thinking Hats

Training the Business Management students to use Six Thinking Hats (decision tool) in order to develop structured thinking in the decision making process.

To develop and view a problem or issue from different perspectives

Benefits of using it as a training intervention in business schools or organizations to promote structured thinking and analyse a problem or issue from various perspectives