Helping your team to focus is one of the most effective ways for overcoming the destructive walls of opinions, positions, and political turf so common in today's workplace. In this series we're concentrating on focusing tools and methods that result in:

• building team unity
• generating momentum
• teasing out creative energy within your team

In today's post we'll briefly explore Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats as a way to help your team work together to create a comprehensive, 360 degree view of the area of concern. 

Let's start with a quick overview of the thinking behind this method.

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The ability to focus your team's thinking is one of the most important facilitation skills to acquire and develop over the life of your career. This post is the first in a series and introduces some of the most important points about focus.

In this series we'll explore several effective ways to get your team focused. I'll introduce a few examples to you including:

• Dorothy Leeds' Powerful Questions
• Edward De Bono's Six Thinking Hats
• The Grove's Context Map

Let's get started!

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