Six Sigma Certification - Six Sigma Black Belt

Introduction

This course is designed to provide delegates with the knowledge required to pass the Six Sigma Yellow, Green and Black Belt exams.

Six Sigma Black Belt is a much sought-after qualification which shows expertise with Six Sigma and that the holder has the skills required to manage and lead quality improvement projects using the DMAIC methodology.

This 10-day course includes everything delegates need to be able to practice at Black Belt level, including material and exams for Yellow and Green Belt.

Pre-Course Reading

We will provide you with some work to do before the course starts. This consists of various pre-course guides and is expected to take around 30 hours of study.

You will also need a laptop with a copy of Minitab installed for the Black Belt portion of the course. A 30-day trial version is available, and details of how to install this are included within your pre-course reading document.

It is important to point out that the trial version is only for 30 days, so you need to time your download so Minitab remains active for the duration of the Black Belt section of the course. Also, Minitab is not currently available for Apple Macs.

Prerequisites

As this course includes Six Sigma Green Belt, there are no prerequisites and previous knowledge of Six Sigma is not required.

Who Should Attend?

We recommend this course for anybody interested in business performance improvement.

Course Outline

The course lasts ten days and is in two parts. Days 1-5 will be spent on Yellow & Green Belt. Days 6-10 will be on Black Belt. A case study is taken on the final day of the course.

Course Content

The course covers the following areas:

• New ways of working
• Meeting management
• Responsibility charting
• Improvement wheel
• Emotional cycle of change
• Motivation and Communication
• How to run a critical issues workshop

Advanced tools

• Cycle time / Takt time
• Work balancing
• RRS
• Value stream mapping
• Gage R&R
• T”&”F” tests
• Design of experiments
• Advanced control charts

Operational performance management

• Designing a performance management Dash board
• Using a performance management dashboard
• Meeting management
• Improvement wheel
• Trend interpretation
• Using visual management
• Building a business case
• Performance management reporting

Leadership

• 5 leadership principles
• Building a high performance team
• Situational leadership
• How to run quick win teams and rapid action teams
• T&F tests
• Managing resistance
• Coaching and feedback

Six Sigma Black Belt Examination

The Black Belt examination consists of 100 multiple choice questions with a pass mark of 70 out of 100. Success in this examination indicates that the candidate would be able to lead a programme of process improvement initiates guiding up to 6 Green Belt teams at any one time act as a subject matter expert on Lean Six Sigma methodology and tools.

Why choose The Knowledge Academy?

• We provide world-class learning material
• We make the learning experience enjoyable
• We are trusted by globally leading brands such as JP Morgan, HSBC and Sony as a learning partner of choice.
• We provide pre- and post-course support so you never feel alone
• All of our training is hands-on, using real world examples
• As a market leader, we have an extremely high global pass rate
• Over 90% of our delegates come back to us for further training
• We have the best instructors in the industry which is reflected in our position as the market leader for professional qualifications
• We provide value for money and trained over 50,000 delegates in 2014
• We have some of the most luxurious course venues worldwide

About Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a quality improvement methodology for businesses which focuses on collecting and analysing data on business processes in order to identify where defects are occurring and decide how to reduce them. In organisations, Six Sigma is practised by specialised Six Sigma teams with different designations: Black and Master Black Belts oversee Six Sigma related activities, while Green and Yellow Belts work together with the Black Belts to help carry these activities out. Having been invented originally by Motorola in the 1980s, Six Sigma has since been taken on by many other companies and has proven itself as an effective method for quality improvement in business.