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Focusing on yourself, focusing on others, and focusing on the wider world

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How does focus on oneself help you to build leadership skills, and succeed as a student?

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Self awareness
Self control
Self revelation

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...is the hat of objective information. Data and facts the important pieces when thinking in this direction.  Think about what is known and what is yet needed to be known.

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...is the hat of emotion; it has feelings. This hat allows people  to express their feelings in the moment, to reduce conversations after the meeting that can negatively impact the group's decisions. This hat allows for intuition; no reasons are needed to justify or defend oneself.

Activities while wearing the red hat:

Take no more than 20 to 30 seconds

This is to signal intuition, feelings and emotions.

Remind yourself that no explanation is needed!

Give feelings and intuition validity.

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...is the hat of creativity, it considers alternatives and possibilities. It is not necessary for this hat to be logical.

Questions asked while wearing the green hat:

We need further alternatives.

We need to make a creative effort.

Are there other ways to do this?

What else could we do here?

How else might we carry through this concept?

What are the possibilities?

What will overcome our difficulties?

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...is the hat of structure, aka the control hat. It manages thinking, facilitates the discussion, creates the agenda, keeps the group focused, and summarizes data or next steps.

Activities while wearing the blue hat:

Sets the agenda.

Sets the timing.

Decides on the next step.

Keeps everyone on the focus.

Handles requests.

Keeps the discipline when using the hats.

Handles the summary and conclusions.

Asks for decisions.

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...is the hat of optimism. This thinking hat uses logic to find benefits, value, and feasibility.  It looks for why solutions might work in the short and long term.  One must have reasons to back up  thinking.

Questions asked while wearing the yellow hat:

What are the benefits?

What are the positives?

What are the values?

Are there savings?

Is there a competitive advantage?

Is there potential value?

Is there a concept in this idea that looks attractive?

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...is the hat of logical judgment and caution. The "what can go wrong hat."  A person is able to identify risks and problems,  or point out reasons a solution might not work. Must have reasons to back up  thinking.

Questions asked while wearing the black hat:

What could be the possible problems?

What could some of the difficulties be?

What are points for caution?

Right now we are using the black hat, so you must make a real effort to come up with the negatives.