The Coloured Hats was an interesting exercise that reminded me of primary school. Donning a different coloured ‘hat’ to give appropriate feedback could definitely be a strong tool to correct and improve work, if implemented in the right way.
De Bono’s Six Thinking Hats provides a framework to help people think and discuss their work with clarity. It helps to direct their attention onto specific aspects, without being overly critical and dismissive of positive parts of their work.
I feel that is definitely can provide promising feedback and allow work to be polished, but it needs to be implemented properly. When used by our table groups and friends in the workshop, it was difficult to give negative feedback and to provide improvements. Instead of us all having individual hats, it seemed we all had the positive, yellow hat.