Decision-Making Model

Decision-Making Model Analysis Paper

Throughout this paper, the values of the Six Thinking Hats will be discussed and the meanings behind the Six Hats. Six Thinking Hats’ is “used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation (de Bono, 1985)”. There are five values behind the Six Thinking Hats. They are role-playing, attention direction, convenience, possible basis in brain chemistry, and rules of the game. Decision-making can be difficult, but these are decisions that are made after all the information has been provided beforehand.

White Hat

”White hat is neutral and objective. The white hat is concerned with objective facts and figures (de Bono, 1985)”. The purpose of the white hat is to focus on the data available. Look at the information given and see what can be learned from it. The person requesting the information should use focusing questions in order to obtain information or information gaps. White hat thinking is a discipline and a direction. The thinker has to strive to be more neutral and objective in the presentation of the information.

Red Hat

”Red hat suggests anger (seeing red), rage and emotions. The red hat gives the emotional view (de Bono, 1985)”. When a thinker is using the red hat there should never be any attempt to justify the feelings or to provide a logical basis for them. The purpose of the red hat is to look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. With the red hat, this allows the thinker to say; “This is how I feel about the matter”.

Black Hat

”Black is gloomy and negative. The black hat covers the negative aspects – why it cannot be done (de Bono, 1985)”. With the black hat all the bad points of a decision has to be taken into consideration. This is the hat where the weak points are looked at my closely. This is the time when contingency plans are prepared and placed into order. The black hat points out risks, dangers, or faults in a design. The black hat is not argument, it is just an objective attempt to put negative elements on the table.

Yellow Hat

”Yellow hat is sunny and positive. The yellow hat is optimistic and covers hope...

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...rpose of the different color hats is so that with each hat is up for discussion then decisions can be made at that point. For us to determine who will speak first, if you are wearing that hat color that we are discussing then that person will have the option to speak first regarding there opinion. If there are more than one person with that color on, then the person who has more red, or black or yellow etc. on then he or she goes first. Beside each hat the decision that we came up with as a group will be written down.

Conclusion

The purpose of the six thinking hats is allowing a thinker to deal with one thing at a time. Instead of having to take care of emotions, logic, information, hope and creativity all at the same time. Being able to deal with them separately helps to come up with a more successful outcome. When thinking is clear and simple, it becomes more enjoyable and more effective.

References

De Bono, E., Six Thinking Hats. (1985) MICA Management Resources, Inc. Toronto, Ontario

Mind Tools. Six Thinking Hats. (1995). [Online]. Available:

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm