Secure data storage and transmission: Encrypting data at rest and in transit to prevent unauthorized access and data leaks. Put up a poster or provide cards for each of the hats telling participants what perspective they should be taking with each hat

Try to wear one hat at a time and avoid jumping from one hat to another. This helps you keep a focus on one perspective without it being influenced by another Green Hat– The green hat is used to encourage new and innovative ideas. Thinking outside the box where anything should be considered. No negative thinking or comment is allowed at this stage in the process.Joe introduces the team to six hats thinking before breaking them into two groups of four. He mixes up the group to create some diversity in thinking. All of your meetings, discussions, exploration and thinking should culminate in forward movement, a commitment to implement new ways of doing and seeing things. The six thinking hats method should provide you with all you need to know to make good decisions and solve big problems.

There are many ways to apply the hats in an organisation, both for an individual and in groups. You can take any problem or situation and try these approaches: In groups Think about having groups or sub-groups wear one hat at a time. This can improve collaboration and help the team to work on one perspective at the same timeWhen wearing the red hat groups will be using their logical brain (frontal lobe) to consider negative aspects of ideas, but from a logical standpoint. For each green hat idea and red hat negative, they might try to answer questions like: A coffee house (let’s call them ‘coffee stop’) is getting a growing number of complaints from customers as they are having to wait too long for their coffee – how can they solve this problem?” For example, if a group is asked to consider a problem with one hat at a time, they are less likely to be in dispute than when they are thinking from all perspectives. This often shows up as one team member looking at all the negatives while another is being highly positive and looking for all the good points.