1. CREATIVE THINKING AND TOOLS
GROUP 3

2. LIFE ISN'T ABOUT FINDING YOURSELF.
LIFE IS ABOUT CREATING YOURSELF.

4. WHAT IS CREATIVE THINKING?
CREATIVE THINKING IS NOT A TALENT, IT
IS A SKILL THAT CAN BE LEARNT.
IT EMPOWERS PEOPLE BY ADDING
STRENGTH TO THEIR NATURAL ABILITIES
WHICH IMPROVES TEAMWORK,
PRODUCTIVITY AND WHERE
APPROPRIATE PROFITS.
* ABILITY TO IMAGINE OR INVENT
SOMETHING NEW

11. CREATIVE THINKING TECHNIQUES
• BRAINSTRORMING
• IDEA GENERATING QUESTIONS
• CHECKLISTS

12. IDEAS GENERATING QUESTIONS
• WHO? (Actor or Agent)
• WHAT? (Act)
• WHEN? (Time or Timing)
• WHERE? (Scene or Source)
• WHY? (Purpose)
• HOW? (Agency or Method)

13. Edward De Bono
Six Thinking Hats
An aid to creative thinking
‘You can analyse the past,
but you can design the future.’
Edward de Bono

14. Thinking in hats (Edward de Bono)
• To aid creative thinking
Edward de Bono came up
with six notional hats that
can be put on and taken off
easily.
• The hats are designed to
indicate a role or mode of
thinking.
• It is based on the principle
of parallel thinking.

16. The white hat (informative)
• The information seeking
hat.
• What are the facts?
• What information is
available? What is
relevant?
• When wearing the white
hat we are neutral in
our thinking.

17. The red hat (intuitive)
• What do you feel about
the suggestion?
• What are your gut
reactions?
• What intuitions do you
have?
• Don’t think too long or
too hard.

18. The black hat (cautious)
• The caution hat.
• In the black hat a
thinker points out errors
or pit-falls.
• What are the risks or
dangers involved?
• Identifies difficulties and
problems.

19. The yellow hat (constructive)
• The sunshine hat.
• It is positive and
constructive.
• It is about effectiveness
and getting a job done.
• What are the benefits,
the advantages?

20. The green hat (creative)
• This is the creative
mode of thinking.
• Green represents
growth and movement.
• In the green hat we look
to new ideas and
solutions.
• Lateral thinking wears a
green hat.

21. The blue hat (reflective)
• The control hat,
organising thinking
itself.
• Sets the focus, calls for
the use of other hats.
• Monitors and reflects on
the thinking processes
used.
• Blue is for planning.

22. CONCLUSION

23. ‘Perhaps the most important benefit from
teaching thinking is the increase in self-esteem
and self-confidence of those taught. A
youngster taught thinking feels in control of his
of her life-instead of feeling like a cork carried
along by a stream of life and controlled by the
currents.’
Edward de Bono.