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There are 5 inter-related topics for Lean Sigma Training:
Lean Sigma Champions
Lean Sigma White Belt
Lean Sigma Green Belt
Lean Sigma Black Belt
Lean Sigma Project Team
Any business enterprise ultimately needs all of these capabilities
in order to “survive and prosper” today and in the future.
Our Lean Sigma Team is ready, willing, and able to help you and
your company on this important journey!
Where should you start?
We recommend beginning with the Lean Sigma Champions.
These are the people with the direct responsibility for performance
of a business process (more on this below). They need to be the
leaders who have a vision of the future and provide the resources
to achieve it.
Lean Sigma Champions are process owners. These are people who own the responsibility for a business process and its results in an organization. Examples of these processes include (but are not limited to):
The responsibility of a Lean Sigma Champion is to continuously improve the business process he/she “owns”.
Lean Sigma Sensei Jim Myers offers specific training and coaching to these Lean Sigma Champions through 1-day or 2-day workshops with these topics:
Lean Sigma White Belts – Once you have identified your Lean Sigma Champions and, together, mapped the vision for the organization’s Lean Sigma efforts, we believe you need to start training and certifying your Lean Sigma White Belts. This is a basic level of Lean Sigma capability needed to start improving business processes.
The Lean Sigma White Belt (LsWB) is achieved through one week of intensive Lean Sigma Training. Successful participants will be certified as Lean Sigma White Belts upon completion of this training that includes:
Lean Sigma White Belts are at the “learning level” of Lean and Six Sigma and generally receive coaching from Lean Sigma Green Belts and Black Belts. They work as members of project teams and retain their regular full-time jobs in the organization.
Lean Sigma Green Belts (LsGB) are then developed from this group of certified Lean Sigma White Belts. The difference between White Belt and Green Belt is the level of commitment. The Green Belt is expected to devote up to half of his/her work time on Lean Sigma projects.
The Lean Sigma Green Belt involves two weeks of additional training beyond the Lean Sigma White Belt, plus completing a major Lean Sigma Kaizen and a Lean Sigma Training Event. Green Belts are expected to be devoting up to half of their time to Lean Sigma Projects, plus maintaining their current organizational position. He/she is typically working on 4-6 Lean Sigma projects every year and delivering results at 4x his/her salary.
Lean Sigma Green Belt topics include:
Lean Sigma Black Belt (LsBB) is the advanced level of certification – when a person works full time on Lean Sigma and helping his/her business with transformational change, while working on Lean Sigma projects.
A Lean Sigma Black Belt is someone who’s skilled at Lean and Six Sigma Methodologies and has experience applying these skills in business processes to achieve dramatic results. He/she is a full-time Lean Sigma practitioner in the organization, working on 4-6 major Lean Sigma projects every year and delivering results at 10x his/her salary.
For individuals who have progressed beyond the Lean Sigma Green Belt level and are interested in pursuing advanced certification, we offer 2 weeks of training for potential Lean Sigma Black Belts. Certification for a Lean Sigma Black Belt must also include a major Six Sigma Project, reviewed and verified by our Lean Sigma Team.
Lean Sigma Black Belt Topics include:
Of course, the final level of achievement for these “belts”
would be the Lean Sigma Master Black Belt (LsMBB).
This is a level of certification we believe should be achieved only
by those people who’ve worked full time to teach Lean Sigma
and transform their business for a period of at least 5 full years. This is the Sensei level reached by only a handful
of people in even the largest companies.
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Lean Sigma Project Team is the group of people at your organization who are actually working on Lean Sigma projects. The group is comprised of a cross-section of people from various jobs in the organization put together as a team for the purpose of improving a business process. This process improvement is typically performed as a Kaizen Event, led by a Lean Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt.
The majority of these projects should be done as 5-day Kaizen
Events. Here we depart from the “standard” Six Sigma
staff project approach that can take up to 4 months to complete
of defining DMAIC
(Define->Measure->Analyze->Improve->Control). Instead,
we firmly believe the DMAIC process could be and should be completed
within a 5-day Kaizen Event timeframe, with a project team.
For detailed information on these Lean Sigma programs, contact Jim Myers.
Or, to get started on your Lean pathway to success, contact any member of our Lean Team today: Eric Myers, Jim Myers or John Pinkerton.
