Decision Making Tool: Six Thinking Hats

  • Author: Dr. Lew Bayer
  • Credit: 1
  • Study time: 30 minutes
Critical Skills for New Leaders micro course
Course overview
Two practical tools for better decisions: Flip Your Assumptions to find new options, and the Six Thinking Hats to examine a decision from every angle.
  • Video time: 2 minutes
  • Certificate of Completion included

What's included?

  • 5 Lessons
  • 1 Certificate of Completion
  • 1 Worksheet
  • 3 Videos
  • 2 PDF downloads

What you will learn

Good decisions need more than the first idea and the loudest voice. This micro module introduces lateral thinking through the nine dots puzzle, teaches the four-step Flip Your Assumptions tool, and shows new leaders how to use Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats, alone or with a team, to make decisions that are creative, balanced and respectful of every perspective.

A tool you can use this week

The Flip Your Assumptions and Six Hats worksheet, which you download and complete for a real situation of your own.

Dr. Lew Bayer

CEO of Civility Experts Inc., author, and Canadian Civility Ambassador
ABOUT LEW
Dr. Lew Bayer is internationally recognized as the leading expert on civility at work. She is CEO of Civility Experts Inc., a multinational civility training group with more than 500 affiliates in 46 countries, and the author of 23 books, including the bestseller The 30% Solution and a new book on diplomacy due for release in January 2027. With some 30 years of experience as a practitioner and mentor, Lew and her team of social architects help organizations build better workplaces by building competency in civility. She serves as faculty at the Canadian Management Centre, is Director of the International Civility Trainers' Consortium, and is currently embracing her role as Canadian Civility Ambassador.
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