Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Program

Six Sigma is the comprehensive business improvement strategy made famous by organisations such as Motorola, General Electric, Honeywell and others, which has been used to generate significant improvements in business performance.

Six Sigma is defined as “A comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining and maximising business success. Six Sigma is uniquely driven by close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of facts, data and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing, improving and reinventing business processes.” (The Six Sigma Way, by Pande, Newman and Cavanaugh).

Lean focuses on waste reduction, maximisation of value and building a culture in which continuous improvement and excellence becomes everyone's responsibility. Combining Lean and Six Sigma provides a powerful methodology for embedding improvement and excellence into any organisation's core values.

Lean Six Sigma is increasingly being adopted world wide in all industries and in both the public and private sectors.

It is a disciplined process focused on delivering near perfect products and services. It is based on a structured methodology for continuous improvement, that can be used to improve any process in any business and through its application over time, is an enabler of cultural change that changes the way organisations work and the way they think.

Lean Six Sigma is implemented through team members qualified to the Green Belt level identifying and actioning improvement projects using team based approaches. They are supported by more highly trained “improvement experts” qualified to the Black Belt level.

This GLOMACS training course introduces participants to all of the core concepts underpinning the Lean Six Sigma approach to implementing a business improvement oriented culture and systems in organisations, and how these are used to improve customer satisfaction, process performance, and enhance competitive advantage and business results.

In Lean Six Sigma organisations, it is the Green Belts who lead and contribute to the majority of improvement teams undertaking the improvement projects that will make continuous improvement through Lean Six Sigma a key element of achieving and maintaining operational excellence.

This GLOMACS training seminar will provide participants the level of knowledge and skill required to achieve accreditation at the Green Belt level.

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course is presented as single 5-day workshop and allows time after the workshop for participants to initiative their own workplace based Lean Six Sigma application projects.

This GLOMACS training course assumes that all participants have completed the Yellow Belt program as a pre-requisite which is effectively considered as “module one” of the Green Belt program.

The Green Belt program builds on the foundation concepts and methodologies introduced in the Yellow Belt program by examining the DMAIC process in more detail, phase-by-phase.

Participants should be in a position where they can undertake their own workplace based Lean Six Sigma improvement project upon completion of this 5-day GLOMACS training seminar in order to consolidate and provide practical application of the learning.

Also, addressed during the second workshop are an introduction to Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) based on the DMADV framework and various Lean Thinking based concepts that complement the core Lean Six Sigma body of knowledge and that will improve the effectiveness of Green Belts in their business improvement role.

The objectives of this GLOMACS training course are to provide participants with a:

• More detailed and advanced understanding of the DMAIC and DMADV process
• Thorough understanding of measurement and key data analysis technique aimed at understanding process performance, problem solving and root cause analysis
• Working knowledge of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis Technique
• The “Wrestling with Jellyfish” methodology for dealing with intangible problems
• A complete coverage of all Lean methods and technique

In particular, it is expected that participants completing the Green Belt program will be able to successfully execute and implement projects using each of the methodologies covered in the seminar and be able to correctly decide which the most appropriate methodology for each situation is.

Participants completing this seminar may elect to progress further in order to achieve the more advanced Black Belt accreditation.

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt seminar is a hands-on, stimulating learning experience.

This GLOMACS training course will be highly interactive, with opportunities to advance your opinions and ideas. Participation is encouraged in a supportive environment.

To ensure the concepts introduced during the seminar are understood, they will be reinforced through a mix of learning methods, including lecture style presentation, open discussion, case studies, simulations and group work.

The Green Belt program is delivered by way of a 5-day workshop, supported by a team based project showing the application of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt techniques to the workplace, upon completion of the course.

*Note: Some of the topics covered in this seminar will make use of the Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet software and the “Data Analysis Toolpak” add-in. Participants will need to bring laptops to the seminar with the “Toolpak” add-in installed and activated.

It has been our experience that the learning value of the training experience is maximised if there are enough laptop computers available so that no more than two participants have to share a computer.

Organisations who expose participants to the training and development experience provided by this GLOMACS training seminar will be contributing to building a core of knowledgeable and skilled staff who will be able to add value through their contributions as team members and team leaders for Lean Six Sigma improvement projects at an intermediate-to-advanced level.

In addition to being able to undertake more advanced projects themselves, Green Belts will be in position to lead, mentor and guide Yellow Belt Teams to ensure successful completion of projects.

Individuals attending this seminar will gain knowledge and skills in key business and operational improvement methodologies, tools and techniques at a more advanced level than the Yellow Belt program in addition to developing their measurement and data analysis skills. They will be able to initiate, execute and deliver improvement projects for their organisations addressing a significantly broader range of problems including addressing intangible issues.

They will also be able to contribute to the development of Lean Six Sigma implementation strategies.

The best candidates for this GLOMACS Green Belt training are typically employees at any level who have an interest in improving the organisation. This can include:

• Senior Managers who may wish to participant in the occasional high level project and use their knowledge of Lean Six Sigma concepts, tools and techniques to improve their understanding of the business and improve their problem solving and decision making skills
• Middle Managers, Front Line Managers and Team Leaders who wish to define, lead and participate in improvement initiates
• Operational level employees who are interested in improvement and in being involved in the process of improvement

The Lean Six Sigma skills and knowledge acquired in this course are "generic" in nature and just as applicable to manufacturing, process or service industries. In fact, a key part of the learning occurs as a result of translating the concepts covered in the seminar to each individual organisation's specific context.

This GLOMACS training seminar challenges participants at a fundamental level to understand and managed their existing organisations as effectively and efficiently as possible given current constraints and equips them with the tools and methodologies to improve their organisations to achieve increasingly higher levels of performance.

Therefore, this GLOMACS training course will people working at levels of any type of organisation - public sector or private sector, manufacturing, process or services.