Six Thinking Hats as a Creative Approach in Managing Meetings

This is a valuable book for managing meetings effectively. Meeting is a purposeful gathering of people, a goal oriented work session, a productive use of communal time and cooperative group effort. Develop a system of communication that facilitates shared understanding and your meetings will be more productive. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hat method helps facilitate more productive group meetings through utilizing different perspectives, but ensuring that everyone is aligned to only one perspective at a time. A structured technique that helps refocus the team`s thinking and approach problems from different perspectives. It Saves time by providing a framework to participate in productive "thinking together" meetings delivering necessary results, minimizing personality conflicts, sidestepping egos which get in the way of performance, separating facts from emotions and becoming better focused and to-the-point in discussions. Also, it increases creative and innovative performance by providing a framework to generate powerful new ideas, select opportunities to pursue, consider a broader range of solutions, develop action plans to minimize risk and properly promote ideas to managemen