Holding a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt demonstrates your expertise in minimizing waste and providing premium-quality products and services. This 100% online course will prepare you to qualify for and pass the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification exam.
"Six Sigma" describes a series of process improvement techniques designed to reduce errors and improve quality in an organization's products and services. "Lean" is a management discipline that seeks to reduce waste and minimize associated costs. "Lean Six Sigma" represents the blending of the two philosophies into an operating system that maximizes quality while minimizing costs.
Black Belts are a change agent in the organization. A Black Belt will be the project owner of an organizational quality improvement process. As project owner, they allocate team member responsibilities and resources, effectively overseeing a team of Green and Yellow Belts.
Black Belts use support tools such as Voice of the Customer (VOC), Lean, failure mode and effects analysis, and statistics. Six Sigma Black Belts are experts in these Six Sigma principles:
Lean Six Sigma Black Belts may serve in one or more of the following capacities: Lean Six Sigma leader, project management and Agile manager, quality assurance manager, director of Lean Six Sigma, or simply Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Prerequisites and Requirements
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
Introduction to Black Belt Training
Overview of Black Belt training, project selection and building leadership skills
Define Phase
Conducting process walks, strengthening leadership skills and defining your Black Belt project
Measure Phase
Laying statistical groundwork, testing your measurement system and sampling the data
Analyze
Laying hypothesis testing groundwork; testing correlation, discrete data, continuous normal and non-normal data
Improve
Designing experiments and strengthening leadership skills
About Your Black Belt Project
Control
Select control charts and creating visual management
Tracy O'Rourke
Tracy O'Rourke is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 20 years of experience as a facilitator, trainer and presenter. Her clients include the US Department of Veterans Affairs, the State of Washington, Cisco, DC Shoes, GE, and Motorola. She holds a BA in English Literature from San Francisco State University and an MBA with an emphasis in Leadership and Managing Organizational Change from Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University.
Elisabeth Swan
Elisabeth Swan is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt with over 20 years of experience consultant, designer, and executive coach. Her expertise lies in training, process-based organization design, problem-solving, and change management. Her clients include Amazon, Charles Schwab, Burt's Bees, Microsoft, and Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. She holds a BA in English Literature from Barnard College.
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