Each hat represents a different lens or perspective on a particular issue and is an insightful activity that is designed to prevent narrow thinking.

Which is just as well as you teams will be putting on their own thinking hats to apply the model in this Madrid team building activity.

Your group will be given a series of scenarios and problems to solve in teams using the “Thinking Hats” model – this can be tailored for inside or outdoor Madrid activity where the teams find their solutions to the problems presented.

White Hat: Similar to the calm and pure emotions associated with the colour white, this type of thinking focuses on analytical, objective thinking, with an emphasis on facts and feasibility.

Red Hat: We often associate the colour red with anger and heat and hence this represents emotional thinking, subjective feelings, perception, and opinion.

Black Hat: The colour black has been stereotypically linked with doom and gloom and so this forms a type of thinking that is critical, skeptical, focused on risks, and identifying problems.

Yellow Hat: Often symbolizing sunshine and happiness, the yellow hat is about thinking optimistic, speculative, best-case scenarios.

Blue Hat: Blue being the colour of the sky and high above creates a sense of structured thinking, high-level overview of the situation, the big picture.

Green Hat: Associated with the colour of trees and nature, the green hat is about creative, associative thinking, new ideas, brainstorming, out-of-the-box.