The shades of green for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training can lead to significant differences in the amount of green-backs (i.e., US dollars) that a company receives from their efforts. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and execution of its process improvement methodologies so that the enterprise as a whole benefits can result in BIG green benefits.
History of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training
When the role of Six Sigma Green Belt was created in the 1990’s expectations for a Green Belt was that the trained person would be able to execute process improvement efforts effectively in their area of the business.
Six Sigma Green Belt training was to take two weeks over two months (three weeks between sessions), where the person reported out the status of their real project and they satisfactorily completed their project before certification. Six Sigma Green Belt training included the application of a statistical program within the overall training. Lean inclusion at the beginning of the 20th century in the roadmap Six Sigma project execution roadmap provided additional tools that were taught and integrated in high-quality Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training.
However, recently Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training by some providers has been reduced to one week or even less. Obvious the same amount of Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training material cannot be covered in one week or less than can be covered in two weeks.
Comparing Dark Green Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training to Light Green Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training
The following, among other things, are typically sacrificed when there is a reduction in the shades of green for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training; i.e., reducing for a two-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training to one-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training or less duration?
- Quality two-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training includes certification through the execution of a real project that typically provides significant cost benefits to an organization; however, one week training typically does not offer this level of learning and second-week-training report-out experience. This real-project-lack shortcoming can occur with two week Green Belt training too. What is missed by not having a real project for certification is that the trainee does not get the learning benefits from application of the techniques in a real-work environment and report-out of their findings in the second week.
- Quality two-week Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training teaches using high-quality statistical software package such as Minitab. Add-ins using Excel, with perhaps an add-in, might be chosen as an alternative to save software expense; however, much can be sacrificed in the quality of reported outputs and ease of use for statistical analyses. Shorter Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training than a two-week duration often references no software at all, which is a huge short-coming. If one were to only seek certification by passing an ASQ examination they would not necessarily need to take any training at all. In fact, no statistical program is allowed to answer the proctored ASQ test questions. It has been expressed to me that courses around the sole objective of passing the ASQ exam are too theoretical and not practical.
- The equivalent to high-quality two-week Green Belt training in a classroom can be taught on-line and should follow a similar roadmap for improvement project execution. The Lean Six Sigma improvement project execution Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) training could be executed for individuals or a group of people in an organization. This DMAIC training should structurally integrate both statistical and non-statistical Six Sigma and Lean tools. This is often missing in a shortened version of the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training.
- Organizations and individuals benefit when their Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training follow a similar DMAIC roadmap which is documented so that the methodologies for executing a project can be explained to others. Trainees benefit when the methodology is described in a published book that provides the details of the DMAIC roadmap execution, such as Integrated Enterprise Excellence Volume III – Improvement Project Execution: A Management and Black Belt Guide for Going Beyond Lean Six Sigma and the Balanced Scorecard. Shortened Lean Six Sigma Green Belt trained often describes only a few tools for each DMAIC step without much integration of tools within each step.
Obtaining High-quality Dark Green Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training
Smarter Solutions provides high-quality two-week classroom Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and on-line training that addresses all the above issues that can occur with many other Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training providers. Many have suggested that the Smarter Solutions Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training and Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training has been a life changing events. Frequently public classroom dark green Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training occurs in Austin, Texas, along with other locations.
The shades of Green for Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Training should be considered when making a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt provider and methodology selection.