CORMETIS CONSULTING
Insight to Move People and Organisations from Understanding to Action
Ethics for leaders - The Orange 7th Hat and how to use it:
This course is available in mixed formats and is aimed at directors, managers and leaders at all levels working in health and care settings. It is especially suited to executive and non executive board members as well as senior and trainee leaders and managers with an interest in decision making methods and developing ethical approaches to situational assessment and strategy formulation.
Participants on this course will:
-
Understand the benefits of applying paradigm shifting tools and techniques,
-
Discuss case studies where use of the Orange Hat could have saved lives,
-
Learn when and how to use the ethical decision making hat.
Many leaders, managers and business consultants will be familiar with Edward de Bono's Six Thinking Hats. The intent of such tools is to assist people in making better decisions by applying structures and mental frameworks that encourage, stimulate and harness diverse thinking. Having studied and used the Six Hats and numerous other thinking tools over the years, it became apparent to me there was a gap in these thinking tools in relation to applying ethics as a discrete dimension in its own right. I decided to develop a 7th Orange Hat of Ethics, which can be used on its own or to supplement other thinking and decision making tools.