Edward de Bono’s thinking tools
“We need both information and thinking. Information is no substitute for thinking and thinking is no substitute for information.“
— Edward de Bono, De Bono’s Thinking Course
Six Thinking Hats®
Available as a 1-day workshop (virtual or in-person)
How many times have you been in the same metaphorical boat as others but discovered that you are all paddling in different directions? Meetings that last for ever without a clear outcome or decisions that are never made or lack buy-in?
Or perhaps you have found your own mind trying to weigh everything up at the same time while you’re trying to reach an important decision?
Wouldn’t it be great to find a simple tool to tackle these frustrating situations?
Dr Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats® methodology is used around the world: in business, in education at all levels, and by individuals. It will change the way you think and make decisions – with immediate effect and real impact.
With the Six Thinking Hats, you learn how to:
- Engage in parallel thinking individually, in 1:1s or as a group
- Halve thinking or meeting times and double effectiveness.
- Shift thinking (yours and others) from negative to positive; and from emotional reactions to facts within seconds.
- Identify solutions and tackle problems to save time (and money).
Parallel thinking reduces adversarial or jumbled analysis and encourages clearer, more effective thinking and idea development.
Lateral Thinking®
Available as a 2-day workshop (virtual or in-person)
Everyone can be creative.
Thinking creatively is a skill that can be learned, even by those who profess themselves to be uncreative.
Edward de Bono’s coined the term “lateral thinking” in 1967 and his skills for lateral thinking can be applied in any situation where thinking needs to be unclogged and creative solutions found to real problems.
Start by sharpening or changing the focus of your creativity and then apply a range of tools.
By using these techniques, we can learn to break free of conventional ways of thinking that have us running on the same tracks all the time. We can leave the tracks, thinking in ways others are not, being daring and stepping away from norms, finding new window to view a problem.
Far from just creating ideas though, these lateral thinking tools help to process those ideas and turn them into practical solutions with actionable steps that fit the circumstances at hand.