The document discusses an individual's experience wearing the different "hats" from the Six Hats model in a creative teams assignment. The most comfortable hat is the Creative hat, as the individual enjoys coming up with new ideas and solutions, though they have less practice with this hat. The least comfortable is the Intuitive hat, as the individual prefers to be thoroughly prepared rather than make decisions based on intuition. When trying on different hats, the Logical and Organized hats feel most natural due to the individual's background, but the Creative and Optimistic hats help the most with brainstorming and coming up with new ideas, while the Intuitive hat is still the most difficult to wear.

1. Creative Teams Assignment – Six Hats Model
1) What hat color is most comfortable for you?
As someone who studied engineering and worked for years in project management, I have the most
training and experience using the Logical and Organized hats in teams. However, I most enjoy wearing
the Creative hat, coming up with many new ideas/solutions, even if I haven’t had as much practice with
that hat.
2) What hat color is the least comfortable for you?
I’ve had some experience with each of the hat colors, but the Intuitive hat is the one that I feel least
comfortable wearing. I prefer to prepare thoroughly and feel comfortable with a project or situation
before moving forward, rather than using intuition to make decisions. I’ve been able to wear the
Intuitive hat when necessary, but prefer to manage with the Logical or Organized hats.
3) Try on several different hats – how does each feel?
Logical – Wearing the logical hat feels very comfortable to me because of my background in engineering
studies and system implementation. However, I found it difficult to come up with very creative ideas
with this hat. For me, it helps me define logical processes and procedures, but tends to keep out
solutions and options that aren’t obvious and logically in the timeline.
Creative – Wearing this hat really helped in the brainstorming assignment. Ideas I would not normally
come up with were much more likely to come to me with this hat on. I still had to try different tactics to
improve the brainstorming process, but those ideas were much easier to find with this hat on.
Intuitive – This hat is the most difficult for me to wear comfortably. I work more by knowledge and
experience than intuition. But this hat can help me try “little bets” or small tests of something new that
my logical/organized hats would eschew.
Organized – From years of project management experience, the organized hat feels very comfortable to
me. In the brainstorming assignment, this hat helped me to put the various solutions to my problem in
logical buckets. Then the creative and optimistic hats could work more effectively coming up with
solutions in those buckets.
Cautious – The cautious hat is not my usual mode, but I can definitely take part in a project as a devil’s
advocate. I can easily think through the potential problems of a proposed plan or solution, but I don’t
usually focus on this. I will instead wear a logical hat to come up with both pros and cons (not just cons)
of a proposed solution. I find the cautious hat to usually be an impediment to creative ideas, quickly
knocking down ideas before they have a chance to blossom.

2. Optimistic–I find the optimistic hat to be the opposite of the cautious hat. It allows me to come up with
creative ideas that I might normally ignore because I don’t think they have any real potential to be
implemented. Instead of comparing pros and cons, I focus on the pros of an idea, allowing it time to
breathe. Even if none of these ideas ever blossom into a solution, they might inform other, more
plausible ideas, to bubble up. After the Creative hat, the Optimistic hat helps me come up with the most
brainstormed ideas.