Maybe This Is Why Things Aren't Great At Your Meetings

Published: Tue, 12/04/18

What do Hats Have to do With Solving Problems?

Have you been to those school meetings, where, ugh! everyone is talking at once, there's no time to think outside of the boxes on the IEP form, and not much is actually accomplished?

Yes, I've been there too. Instead there is a wonderful problem solving/decision making process that you can use!

Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hat strategy can be used for school meetings, when working on systemic change in your school district, when talking to your child's doctor about what next steps to take, or in many other situations - you're gonna love it!

Click the video above to watch it, or catch it on my YouTube channel.

If you'd rather listen to the podcast of the episode, we got you covered! Click here

*** Look down below in the Resources section to get the Six Thinking Hats handout I promised. ***

Do you want to cut to the chase? Check out these Key Take-Aways by going to the specific time stamp in the video, or on the podcast.

How Six Thinking Hats Can Help 2:38

No More Spaghetti Thinking 5:46

What Does The Blue Hat Symbolize 10:21

What Happens With Red Hat Thinking 12:28

This Is How White Hat Thinking Helps 15:37

What My Yellow Pittsburgh Steeler Hat Means 16:44

The Black Hat Thinking 18:00

Why Green Hat Thinking Is So Fun 19:49

Why To Use The Red & Blue Hats At The End 22:40

How You Child Can Wear The Blue Hat 25:31

Do you want a quote to tweet, or share on your Facebook page? Go for it! Here are some quotes from the recent The Art of Advocacy show.

* Six different thinking hats can actually help us look at different issues in a lot of different perspectives.

Charmaine Thaner

* The Six Thinking Hats strategy can be very helpful to use when looking at making systemic change.

Charmaine Thaner

* This six thinking hat process allows for creativity, time to come up with new ideas and it's really valued in this process. And that's the part that I think is really missing an IEP meetings.

Charmaine Thaner

* Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it's looked at in a certain way. Look at another way. The right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Edward de Bono

Just click on these links for more terrific resources.

Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats, handout by Charmaine

Training For Six Hats Training

Six Thinking Hats For The Classroom

Thursday, December 6th: Solution Circle

Another favorite problem solving process that can be done in less than an hour!

Thursday, December 13th: Trampoline Gymnast Kristle Lowell and Her Journey with Depression

Kristle is a World Championship Gold medalist that has depression, anxiety and has struggled with the stigma of mental illness. She will talk about the three stages she has gone through: Victim, Survivor, and Thiver.

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