2. Assignment details
• What hat color is most comfortable for you?
– I found Green colour Hat : Creative
• What is the least comfortable for you?
– I found Blue Hat Colour: Organised
• In your next team interaction, try on several
different "hats" and see how they feel. Briefly
describe the experience.
3. Our experience
• Topic to brain storm: How to address sleep
issue because of stress.
• We found people were very much
comfortable with green colour.
• People with black colour were very critical eg
for every option they were challenging which
was not required in brainstorming.
4. Our experience
• When we ask team members to put on blue
hat, then we were able to identify 2-3 ways to
adapt for each member
– eg. I pick up Supporting wife in kitchen, smiling on
ourselves & Hang out with happy people as action
points.
– I found that blue colour hat should be used
towards the end of brainstorming to ensure
application of key learnings.
5. Our experience
• When we ask them to wear yellow hat, than
participants mainly looked at positive sides of
the options.
• Somewhere I felt that we need to keep a
balance in black & yellow hat.
• We could not do much with red hat, as
participants were more in the
reasoning mood & hence
emotions were on back seat.
6. Conclusion
• We found 6 hat principle works well in terms
of generating ideas & making action plan.
• The exercise was very fruitful & we were able
to generate approx 125 ideas to address the
issue of sleep problem due to stress.
