April Chapter Meeting - Professional Development Meeting - Six Thinking Hats by Dick Orth
Title: Six Thinking Hats – A Leader’s Guide to Practical Thinking - Dick Orth
Abstract:
Six Thinking Hats® is a proven thinking tool for group discussions and individual thinking. It provides a framework to help people think clearly and thoroughly by directing their thinking attention in one direction at a time. The Six Thinking Hats technique stimulates clear, objective, creative thinking, and reduces the “trenching” of endless discussions and arguing. Create shorter, results-oriented meetings where people want to participate. Effectively analyze issues, generate ideas, and make better decisions.
The use of hats is a simple mental metaphor. Hats are easy to put on and to take off. Each hat is a different color which signals a unique thinking ingredient. In a group setting each member thinks using the same thinking hat, at the same time, on the same topic — a process called “parallel thinking.”
Date & Time
Thursday April 8th, 2021 6:30pm EST
End Date & Time
Thursday April 8th, 2021 7:45pm EST
Venue: Virtual via Zoom
Event Properties
| Event Date | 04-08-2021 6:30 PM |
| Event End Date | 04-08-2021 7:45 PM |
| Cut off date | 04-08-2021 6:15 PM |
| Individual Price | Virtual Event - No Cost |
| Location | Virtual Event |
Speakers
Dick Orth
Richard (Dick) Orth has over 30 years’ experience at IBM in Owego and Endicott, NY as a change leader, facilitator, trainer and leadership coach. He has led hundreds of organizational change engagements by developing capabilities in collaborative problem-solving, team-based decision-making, process facilitation, emotional intelligence and conflict resolution. Since retiring from IBM in 2017, Dick is now an independent learning consultant, continuing his role as a change leader, facilitator, and trainer. Dick has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from New York University and is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. He is a certified ACT (Accelerate Change Together) facilitator and a graduate of the Technical Leadership Program at Binghamton University. Dick is a volunteer community mediator for over 20 years at ACCORD – a Center for Dispute Resolution, and is on the Boards of Directors for several community non-profit organizations. He is a speaker at both Broome Leadership Institute (BLI) and Leadership Tioga, in addition to other community organizational engagements.