high performance teams

HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS
Dr. Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats® will provide your team with skills and tools that can
be applied immediately after attending the course. Learn how separating team thinking into six
distinct categories, each identified by its own colored "thinking hat" icon, leads teams to target
their goals, keep focused, quit arguing, save time, reduce risks, and get results.
The Six Hats structure works like any sports training -- it requires people to check their bad
habits at the door and abide by new rules. It's easy -- and it works.
What are the Six Thinking Hats?
The White Hat
Information available and needed
The Red Hat
Intuition, feelings, and hunches
The Black Hat
Cautions and difficulties
Where things might go wrong
The Yellow Hat
Values and benefits
Why something might work
The Green Hat
Alternatives and creative ideas
The Blue Hat
Managing the thinking process
Testimonials
From the VP of Sales for a Sport Broadcasting Company:
"The introduction of de Bono's 'Six Hats' parallel thinking technique, modified for
application to the selling process, was extremely well-received. In fact, I have already had
positive feedback from our staff on their immediate and successful efforts to use this
training in selling situations. Their only request was that we expand the meeting to a two-
day format next time, to enable greater depth of discussion.
This certainly testifies to the benefit they felt was derived because, as you know,
sales people generally steer clear of meetings of any kind! I have been to a variety of sales

training seminars in the last 25 years, but find this approach, as customized to suit our
products, to be one of the most valuable and practical of any that I have come across. I
would recommend its customized use for any of our broadcast sales teams."
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