Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
This Black Belt course teach you how to lead and support others. You learn to communicate and influence people at all levels to manage change, and you learn statistical and graphical analyzes.
Lean Tech offers the following training with certification:
- Black Belt online course (48 h) and 6 hours coaching, 19.500 NOK
- Black Belt online course (48 h) and 14 hours coaching, 24.000 NOK
- Black Belt online course (48 h), 5 web meetings of 3 h and 6 h coaching, 24.000 NOK
- Black Belt online course (48 h) in combination with 10 days classroom training and 6 hours coaching, 59.000 NOK
GoLeanSixSigmas Green Belt certification is a requirement for this course.
The course content is the same for all courses. The course provides 48 PDUs at Project Management Institutes (PMI) and 4.8 CEUs by International Certification Standard IACET.
This course enables you to:
- Become a driving force for improvement work in your organization
- Manage multiple projects and ensure their alignment to meet organizational goals
- Coach Green Belts to complete successful projects that deliver significant, sustainable results
- Communicate + influence people at all levels of your organization to manage change effectively
- Understand the why, what and how of statistical analysis tools
- Become a better leader
The course is organized according to the course calendar and upon request from companies with 6 - 15 participants. Courses can be tailored to your business needs, and your own data can be used in examples and assignments.
Course content
Introduction
- Black Belt training
- Road map to Black Belt certification
- Black Belt as coach
- PDCA (Plan Do Check Adjust)
- Project selection
- Strategic alignment
- Project selection facilitation
- Build leadership skills
- Purpose and Project work
- Influence Strategies
- Facilitation of High-Performing Teams
Define phase - understand problem
- Conduct Process Walks
- Strengthen Leadership Skills
- Coaching
- Influence
- Ownership
- Facilitation
- Efficient meetings
- Black Belt Project Storyboard
- VOC
- High-level map
- Process walks
- Stakeholder analysis
- Communication plan
Measure phase - map current situation
- Lay statistical groundwork
- Test your measurement system
- Sample the data
- Assess Process capability
- Strengthen leadership skills
- Black Belt Project Storyboard
- Data collection plan
- Operational definitions
- Measurement evaluation
- Graphic displays
- Quality cost - COPQ
- Matrixes
Analyze phase - prove root causes
- Test hypotheses
- Test discrete data
- Test continuous normal data
- Test continuous non-normal data
- Test correlation
- Strengthen leadership skills
- Black Belt Project Storyboard
- Fishbone Diagram & 5 Why
- Hypothesis testing plan
- Root Cause Hypothesis Worksheet
- Graphical displays
- Value & Cycle time analysis
- Value stream map
Improve phase - solve root causes
- Design of Experiments
- One factor at a time
- Full Factorial
- Fractional Factorial
- Strengthen leadership skills
- Black Belt Project Storyboard
- Impact Effort Matrix
- Weighted Criteria Matrix
- Workplace Layout & 5S
- Cross training plan
- Future state map
- Pilot & FMEA
- Implementation plan
- Graphical display
- Stakeholders-Analysis
Control phase - create lasting results
- Select Control Charts
- I & MR Chart
- X-Bar & Range Chart
- X-Bar & Standard Deviation Chart
- P Chart
- nNP Chart
- C Chart
- U Chart
- Visual Management
- Strengthen leadership skills
- Black Belt Project Storyboard
- Monitoring & Response plan
- Control Charts
Classroom training
You will practice what you learn. The instructor will guide & support you.
10 days of classroom spread over 4 months*:
- 2 h start-up meeting
- 2 sessions of 2 days
- 2 sessions of 3 days
Web meetings
You learn by interacting with the instructor and the other participants.
We use Teams or Zoom for the web meetings and solve tasks in smaller groups.
A meeting of 3 hours for every phase of DMAIC (5 meetings) is held.
Coaching
You get help and support based on your needs.
The coaching schedule is agreed with instructor.
All courses include minimum 6 h coaching (1 h for project selection and 1 h after completing each phase of DMAIC).
Online training
The online training is in English, delivered by GoLeanSixSigma.
You have access to the course and certification for a year (unlimited re-takes on exam).
*If you have completed Lean Tech's Green Belt course with classroom, the number of days is reduced from 10 to 6 days.
Classroom training, web meetings and coaching can be held in Norwegian or English. Inform about your preference upon registration.
You need a statistical software to perform the analysis. We use Minitab during classroom training. You can download a 30 days free trial version of Minitab.
During classroom training we will practice Lean Six Sigma by playing a Lego game. The Lego game was developed by John Bicheno at the Lean Enterprise Research Center at Cardiff Business School, and later developed by Joakim Hillberg at Revere in Sweden.
The game is used by companies, universities and consultants in several countries to provide practical experience and understanding of Lean Six Sigma principles.
We also use other types of games and exercises to practice theory. The Galton board is used to understand statistical concepts and control charts.
Online Training
GoLeanSixSigma delivers online training developed by highly successful Lean Six Sigma consultants and trainers with broad international experience. GoLeanSixSigma has helped Amazon, Charles Schwab, BP, Starwood Hotels & Resorts and other leading organizations save hundreds of millions of dollars with Lean Six Sigma.
GoLeanSixSigma's learning methods focus on practical application, not just "knowing the concepts and tools" - enabling course participants to start using Lean Six Sigma right away.
> 220,000 participants from 220 countries have participated so far. They have given the training the highest score.
Participants describe the courses as fun, accessible, affordable, practical, easy to understand and effective.
Practical exercises
Galton board is used during the training for basic understanding of statistics, and practical exercises.
Bonus content
You receive the following templates:
- Training Rollout Kit ($99)
- Template Toolkit ($49)
- Guide to Coaching DMAIC ($19)
- Guide to DMAIC ($14)
- Lean Six Sigma Glossary ($12)
- eBook: The Problem-Solver’s Toolkit ($9)
Certification
To become certified Black Belt, you must pass the 185-question exam. The content is divided into 6 sections (Introduction, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve & Control) and you must answer 80% of the questions within each section correctly. You have 6 hours to complete the exam and unlimited number of attempts.
Black Belt certification requires you to complete a work-based project within 4 months of completing the exam. You will present your Project Storyboard to GoLeanSixSigma.
Within 5 months after completing your exam you must submit an article summarizing your Project Storyboard or a deep dive into concept/tools (1000-2000 words).
The certification is valid for 4 years. Cost of re-certification is 299$ (Choose between Black Belt Exam, Black Belt Storyboard or Article Submission).
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