Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course (Excel) – Onsite
- Interactive onsite workshops
- Team leadership training
- Continuous assessment with project work
- ISO 13053 standard certification
Certified course
Continuous Assessment
Course project
Interactive Q&A
What is this course about?
Green belts rock! On completion of this certified lean six sigma green belt course, you will be a more confident, capable and effective team leader and problem solver, than you ever thought possible. What’s more you’ll have the proof as your project will deliver significant benefits to your organization.
On this course you will learn that lean and six sigma are about teamwork, process and project management and customer service. Green Belt (GB) projects are short-projects (c. 8 – 20 weeks) that result in customer satisfaction and cost savings or additional revenue for the organization. A GB project leader is capable of leading a cross-functional team through a series of formal problem solving steps to complete the project.
The green belt course is laid out in 5 separate all-day workshops. To facilitate learning-by-doing on projects, the workshops are typically scheduled in 3day + 2day format, approximately 3 weeks apart. Your knowledge builds in a step-wise fashion and you will be supported and encouraged throughout your learning journey. During the green belt course, knowledge of the topics will be assessed by means of short continuous assessment examinations. These assessments are completed within a specific time limit and are open book in nature.
Before the course starts, the Lean Ireland consultant will work with your GB course sponsor or training department to ensure projects are selected in line with organisation goals, and that each candidate has a project and sponsor. Project team mentoring is incorporated in the course design. Some months following the formal workshops, candidates present their projects for certification.
Soft copy course presentation materials are available to you to download, so you can continue to be supported after the course is finished.
The course curriculum is run according to ISO13053-1 Quantitative methods in process improvement — Six Sigma — Part 1: DMAIC methodology, guidelines with additional lean content.
Looking for more info before you book your place? Call us now on +353 91 870708, or send an email. We’re always happy to help and to discuss our courses in more detail.
What Will You Achieve?
On completion of the CLSSGB course, you will be able to
- define customer needs for a selected process;
- understand the value of cross-functional teamwork;
- use a range of problem-solving techniques to improve process performance;
- be able to lead a cross-functional team through project steps that will resolve process problems;
- quantify business and financial benefits for the organisation and the customer, and
- be primed to support other project teams in the execution of their projects.
Your project will deliver significant benefits to your organization or your community, in terms of simplifying and standardizing processes.
Your customers will experience improved service levels.
When you attend the full course, complete all continuous assessment assignments, and present your improvement project, you will be awarded a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certificate. The green belt certificate is a significant achievement and enhances your curriculum vitae.
What Topics Will Be Covered?
- Introductions
- GB course curriculum
- Certification process
- Projects review
- Introduction to Lean Six Sigma
The Define phase
- Intro to lean and six sigma
- Defining the project
- Team leader role
- Team member role
- Sponsor role
- Problem definition
- Goal setting
- Capturing the voice of the customer
- SIPOC charting
- Swimlane process mapping
- DMAIC A3 development for each candidate
The Define phase continued
- Quiz
- Swimlane process map (cont’d)
- Spaghetti mapping
- Voice of the customer
- Project scheduling
- Scope management
- Sponsor feedback
- Project cost benefit analysis
- Assignment 1 of 3 introduction
- DMAIC stage gate review
The Measure phase
- Data collection & process performance measurement
- Defects and defectives
- Rolled throughput yield
- A3 update
The Measure phase continued
- Quiz
- Introduction to descriptive statistics
- Measures of location: Mean, median and mode
- Measures of spread: range standard deviation and variance
- Data collection & representation: run & Pareto charts, box plots, scatter diagrams, Histograms
- Introduction to measurement systems analysis (MSA)
- A3 update
The Analyse phase
- Quiz
- The 5 whys
- Cause and effect analysis
- Correlation & regression
- Process capability analysis (PCA)
- Assignment 2 of 3 introduction
- Developing an improvement plan
- Introduction: Failure modes & effects analysis (FMEA) risk analysis & mitigation
- DMAIC A3 update
The Improve & Control phases
- Quiz
- Assignment 3 of 3 introduction
- Error proofing (poka yoke)
- Standard work
- Quick changeover (SMED)
- Drafting and improvement plan
- Piloting improvements
- Statistical process control (SPC) – Variable data
- Statistical process control (SPC) – Attribute data
- Training personnel & updating procedures
- Post implementation review
- Rewarding the team
- Certification process & timing
- DMAIC A3 update
- Review and close
Workshop format: PowerPoint, discussion, Q&A, individual and group exercises, case studies, DMAIC A3 project development, project mentoring and project presentations.
In addition to the above 5 workshops, Lean Ireland provides onsite and online project mentoring, and certification review preparation.
The course will run with a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 12 candidates. Please contact us to enquire about suitable course dates for your team.
We will gladly customise our courses to suit our clients. We can add modules, exams and more case studies relevant to your industry all with the aim of giving you even better value and learning from our courses. This course can also be facilitated via online workshops. Call us on +353 91 870708, or send an email for details.
How Will You Be Supported?
During this course, you will
- Be encouraged to ask questions and partake in discussions and interactive exercises;
- Be able to download the PowerPoint course notes and data files for future use;
- Be provided with a refence textbook for ongoing use in the organisation;
- Complete quizzes to self-assess your understanding of the topic during each workshop, and
- Project mentoring sessions with the Lean Ireland tutor are scheduled after completion of the workshop.
This course is designed to enable all participants, regardless of sector or previous education, to certify as a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. The course is suitable for a range of professions and trades: managers, supervisors, senior administrators, engineers, analysts, technicians, specialists, planners, doctors, nurses, bank officials, assessors, and surveyors. It is designed for those who have a keen interest in process improvement in the workplace, in order to improve customer service. Knowledge of statistics is not required before attending the programme. The most successful candidates are likely to be those who have supervisory experience, or who are well regarded as change agents within their workplace.
Meet Your Tutors
Bernie Rushe
Welcome to our course page and I look forward to supporting you in learning new things, or how to do old things better. Over many years as a trainer and workshop facilitator, it has been a pleasure and privilege to enable teams in a variety of organizations to serve their customers better, and grow their businesses. My lean six sigma consulting engagements with clients and practical workshops have yielded benefits in the order of several €millions per year to client companies.
Prior to becoming a course facilitator, I was involved in the management of supply chain and business process improvement activities. After training as a lean six sigma black belt at Dell Computer Corporation, I left in 2001 to establish Lean Ireland. I am a science graduate, a certified ASQ lean six sigma black belt and hold a first class honours masters’ degree in supply chain management.
Please feel free to free to contact me about consulting and courses. Bernie@LeanIreland.ie
Richard Doyle
Working with Lean Ireland gives me the opportunity to share my engineering skills and knowledge with a wide variety of people. I enjoy explaining technical issues to non technical people. It will be a pleasure to enable you to learn new skills.
I have 20+ years engineering and operations management experience, with organisations such as Seagate and General Electric, in Europe and Asia. As a consultant, I add value in the areas of strategic planning, R&D roadmap development, transfer of work, site level capital management and capital strategy skills, equipment installation, commissioning and production release, and productivity improvement. I am an experienced and motivational project leader, mentor and trainer.
I am a Chemical Engineering graduate and a GE certified Six Sigma Black Belt and Lean Master, and I am a GE certified Six Sigma trainer.
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All of our courses are customised to suit our clients’ environments and participant learning needs. We will be delighted to discuss modification of course content and inclusion of relevant case studies with you.
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