Today we had two ARMPD lectures. After the first lecture our lecturer gave a 15 minutes break and started the second lecture. It was a group work. Lecturer divided us to seven groups which a group consists of four members and from each group has to choose one person as the observer, and he/she had to observe some other group that given by the lecturer. From our group I was chosen as the observer.
The Task of the Group:-
You and your group members are in a flight (Plane) and suddenly plane crashed and fallen down to the sea and there was an isolated island. Now you all have to go to that island. Name six items that you'll take to the island.
The Task of the Observer:-
The observer has to observe a group and identify followings,
Who is leading?
Who is giving ideas?
Who is the criticizer?
Who is silent?
Who is the team builder?
I observed Adil's group. In the group I identified Adil is the group leader because he was the activist person in the group and showed some responsibility. When giving ideas all three of them (Adil, Afnan and Tharana) gave new ideas to the group, but Tharana came up with the highest number of ideas. They had good group contribution. I identified Afnan as the criticizer since he criticized most of the ideas given by Adil and Tharana. In the group none of them were silent. They had good interaction and the team builder was Adil when they had arguments and when they were not in track Adil made sure to come back to the track and do the work and finally they successively finished their task.
After the group activity our lecturer gave us a homework. Homework was to do a research on six thinking hats.
Six Thinking Hats
Six thinking hats tool was founded by Edward de Bono. As mentioned in Mind Tools (2012) six thinking hats explained as "an important and powerful technique. It is used to look at decisions from number of perspectives. This focuses you to move outside your habitual thinking style and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation".
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| Figure 1:Six Thinking Hats (SlideGeeks, 2012) |
White Hat:-
White hat focuses on the data available. Look at the information have and see what can learn from those information. Look at the gaps in the knowledge and try to fill them or take it into account. This is where data from historical data. (Mind Tool, 2012)
Red Hat:-
Red hat looks at problems using intuition, gut reaction and emotion. Also try to think how other people react emotionally. Try to understand other peoples' responses who are not known well. (Mind Tool, 2012)
Black Hat:-
Black hat looks at all the bad point of a decision. Look at it cautiously and defensively. Look at why this decision will not work. This is very helpful because it finds out the weak points and eliminate them and come up with a better plan. (Mind Tools, 2012)
Yellow Hat:-
The yellow hat helps to think positively. It is the optimistic view point helps to see all the benefits and value of the decision. (Mind Tool, 2012)
Green Hat:-
Green hat stands for creativity. This is where can develop creative solutions to problems. It is freewheeling way of thinking in which there is little criticism of ideas. (Mind Tool, 2012)
Blue Hat:-
Blue hat stands for process control. (Mind Tool, 2012)
References:-
Mind Tools. (2012). Six Thinking Hats. [Online] available at:
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_07.htm [Accessed 26th July 2012]
Slide Geek. (2012). Six Thinking Hats. [Online] available at:
http://www.slidegeeks.com/pics/dgm/l/d/de_bonos_six_thinking_hats_ppt_7_1.jpg
[Accessed 26th July 2012]
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