Delivery Options

Online Live Tailored Course

Upcoming Dates

Online Live Courses

Schedule
28, 29th May, 4, 5, 11, 12, 18, 19th June  (8 days)
Duration
8 days
Where
Online Live Classroom
Learn live with our instructor, remotely in our virtual classroom

Key Information Course Description Syllabus Instructor FAQ

Key Information

Duration

8 teaching days

Intended Audience

Team leaders looking to manage larger, more ambitious projects across areas of expertise.

Learning Outcomes

  • Thorough familiarity of DMAIC
  • Lead larger multi-function projects
  • Apply basic problem solving
  • Identify improvement projects
  • Mentor at Green Belt level
  • Apply capablity and statistical control analysis

Included in This Course

  • All tuition + full certification
  • 1-on-1 project mentoring
  • All course materials, software

Exam

None. (Learn Why)

Project Requirements

Yes, for full certification.
Mentor supported (included).

Prerequisites

  • Office software skills (spreadsheets)
  • No statistical knowledge required

Certification

Full certification:
On certification project sign-off.
Course certificate:
On completion of all course lectures.

CPD Hours

Teaching
40 hours
Coursework
25-50 hours

Course Description

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt will teach you process improvement from the perspectives of both Lean and Six Sigma, with more statistics and problem-solving tools in addition to the full Green Belt syllabus.

Starting with the five principles of Lean, the course then progresses through the Six Sigma DMAIC roadmap (Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control), teaching you the basic tools and techniques used at each stage.

During the course you will learn tools for leadership, teamwork, basic problem-solving, simple data analysis, more powerful data analysis and problem solving used in larger, more complex projects, plus there is a review of the teamwork and leadership aspects of being a Black Belt.

Who is this course for?

This course is for current or future team leaders who are looking to lead projects of a greater impact, spanning multiple teams or areas of expertise, that may or may not be outside of their normal comfort zone.

While traditionally used in product assembly and component manufacture, the types of businesses using Lean Six Sigma are expanding.

Those learning Lean Six Sigma are increasingly coming from transactional businesses such as insurance, banking, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, the food industry and logistics.

What is a Black Belt?

As a Black Belt you will be expected to lead larger, more complex projects than a Green Belt, with greater risk but with more impact and benefit, and in any part of an organisation.

Your familiarity with all of the tools and readiness to lead projects will make you an ambassador of Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement.

How does the course work?

The course focuses on practical learning by doing in small groups with simple and approachable example projects. This will develop your knowledge of tools and teamworking skills and experience leading teams in achieving a goal.

It also teaches and demystifies analysis and presentation of data with software, so your projects gain the maximum benefit from the simplest analysis.

Finally, for full certification, you have the option to complete your 1-on-1 coached certification project, which you will more than likely do as part of your typical day.

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Syllabus

Lean Practitioner  (expand)

2 days

An introduction to and practice with Lean thinking and tools.

Lean methodology is the practice of organisational efficiency in minimizing waste and maximizing customer value.

Module Syllabus

  • Five Steps + Eight Wastes of Lean
  • Customer Value, Value Stream Mapping
  • Calculating Process Lead Time + Process Cycle Efficiency
  • Achieving Process Flow, Reduction of Inventory
  • Calculating Takt Time, Line Balancing and Workplace Layout
  • Standard Work and SOPs
  • Kanbans, Visual Management, Mistake Proofing
  • 5S Methodology Workplace Management
  • Streamlined Changeovers & Single-Minute Exchange of Die
  • Standups and Teamwork Co-ordination
Six Sigma DMAIC

2 days

An introduction to the basics ideas and tools behind Six Sigma.

Six Sigma is the structured approach to increased customer satisfaction and reduced costs in business processes.

Module Syllabus

  • DMAIC project process: Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, Control
  • Problem Statement, Project Charter, Process Mapping, SIPOC diagram
  • Process Capability Analysis, Pareto Charts, Affinity Diagrams
  • Benefit Effort Matrix, Failure Mode Analysis
  • Managing Change & Communication
Six Sigma Basic Stats

2 days

Practice with the tools for basic analysis of data and sample statistics for Six Sigma.

This module will demonstrate the more analytical tools used in Six Sigma projects.

Module Syllabus

  • Data sampling techniques and the errors of sampling
  • Sample statistics using mean and standard deviation
  • Simple graphical tools to display and evaluate data samples
  • Capability metrics Cp, Cpk and Sigma Level and evaluation using simple software tools
Six Sigma Black Belt Tools

2 days

More advanced tools and statistics for Black Belt level Six Sigma.

There will be lots of practice with these tools on more analytical example projects.

We will also discuss the expectations on Black Belts for leading larger projects and mentoring others in Six Sigma.

Module Syllabus

  • Confidence intervals
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Correlation
  • Failure Mode and Effects Analysis
  • Expectations and Mentoring
Certification Project with 1-on-1 Coaching

25–50 hrs.

For full certification you will be required, with our help, to complete a Lean Six Sigma project of relevance and value.

With 1-on-1 coaching with your instructor, we'll help you deliver your first professional quality Lean Six Sigma project.

How long will it take?

We expect you to spend roughly 10% of your day for a maximum of three months working on your certification project.

The likelihood is the project will be part of your work and the only extra effort will be documenting it to support your certification.

Meet the Instructor

Martin Hayden

Martin Hayden

Martin qualified as a Six Sigma Master Black Belt in 2002 with Air Academy, Colorado Springs, USA. He has trained over 1200 students and taught courses across the USA, Europe, and Asia.

Martin worked at global Life Sciences company Perkin-Elmer until 2014 and delivered projects for various domains from business process to scientific instrument manufacture.

FAQ

Teaching schedule

Self-paced courses

With our self-paced courses you can study at your own pace and schedule.

You'll have access to our eAcademy where you can watch all our video courses and access all the course materials.

Online live courses

Weekdays, from 9am until 4pm UK time, with plenty of breaks in between!

A typical day usually goes as follows but these standard times can be adjusted to accommodate schedule conflicts (including different time zones!). Let us know at the start of the class and we’ll work it out with agreement of the class at the time.

9:00 – 10:00
Morning session
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:30
Mid-morning session (with a short mid-session break)
12:30 – 14:00
Break for lunch
14:00 – 16:00
Afternoon session (with a short mid-session break)

Tailored courses

Talk to us about booking a tailored group course for your organisation's schedule and training needs.

Joining the online live classroom

We use Zoom Workplace for all teaching and breakout sessions. It's free to download and use. A laptop or desktop computer with a camera and a headset with microphone will work best in class.

The course notes and teaching examples will be distributed via a public One Drive folder for you to download your own local copies.

Teaching style

We use small class sizes to allow lots of interaction with the instructor, as well as allowing us to make the course tailored and relevant to your specific interests.

There will also be quite a few breakout sessions of smaller teams of students and instructors to test and practice the tools.

We like participation! We think as students you learn most by questioning, challenging and testing what you hear.

Software needed

For Six Sigma modules

We use the statistics package JASP, which is 100% free.

It is easy to use and has excellent reporting formats for your project documentation

JASP is a port of IBM SPSS, and is supported by a number of institutions lead by the University of Amsterdam.

You will easily transfer the knowledge you gain using it to any of the other statistics packages that you may come to use.

It is important that we all have access to the same tools for classwork and breakouts and JASP is a great choice for all of our needs.

Deferring partway through a course

Yes you can do that.

If at any point the demands of your job or your personal plans change and conflict with the schedule you can always defer to a later cycle and pick up where you left off.

Privacy concerns

Don't worry!

We don't record any of our live teaching with students.

We also don't required you to give your full name when you sign into the classroom.

Before joining the class you will also be able to set up a background blur to obscure anything that might be in view around you.

Getting course notes, materials.

We will send you a copy of all the slides and all the training examples at the start of class.

We think it is important that you have access to everything and that you are able to make notes as you learn.

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