Six Sigma Black Belt Certification

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Lean Six Sigma Black Belts are some of the most sought-after professionals today and exhibit exceptional leadership qualities, understand team dynamics, and assigns all team members with roles and responsibilities. In this role, Black Belts also coach, develop, and advise the management and the employees to achieve common goals. As a Black Belt candidate, participants will be trained to identify opportunities for improvement with their company, use Lean Six Sigma methodology and apply the correct tools and techniques to a Lean Six Sigma project. Upon completing this course, participants will have the skills needed to lead Lean Six Sigma projects throughout their organization to achieve significant financial impact and improve customer service.

What Participants Will Learn
  • Implement Six Sigma philosophies and principles, including related systems and tools, and describe their impact on various organizational business processes
  • Recognize organization roadblocks and use change management techniques to manage organizational change
  • Define benchmarking and utilize various financial and other business performance measures
  • Identify customer requirements and describe the impact that Six Sigma projects can have on various types of customers
  • Demonstrate fundamental understanding of the components and techniques used in managing teams, including time management, planning and decision-making tools, team formation, performance evaluation and reward
  • Establish an understanding of the elements of a project charter and use various tools to track project progress
  • Illustrate a basic understanding of data collection techniques, process elements, and process analysis tools
  • Analyze the results of correlation and regression analyses
  • Perform hypothesis testing and analyze their results
  • Identify and interpret the seven classic wastes
  • Plan the design of experiments and analyze their results
  • Exhibit a fundamental understanding of an improved process implementation and how to analyze and interpret risk studies
  • Develop control plans and use various tools to maintain and sustain improvements

Becoming Certified

  • Participants must have completed Green Belt training as a prerequisite
  • Attend all 10 days of face-to-face training
  • Take a 100-question test of knowledge at the end of the course and earn 70% or higher
  • Be required to work on a project using one of the three types of Methodologies (DMAIC, DMADV, or Lean DMAIC)
  • Attend 11 weeks of coaching with their Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt mentor (Coaching sessions are 60 minutes per week via conference call)
  • Meet with their Champion for 30 minutes each week to provide a readout on their project
  • Present the PowerPoint storyboard at the end of each phase to their Project Champion and MBB for approval (can be separate readouts)