Practitioner Training
“HexSAB’s tailored training is world class and Sharon’s ability to understand the needs of the class and company and get the best out of everyone in that room needs to be seen to be believed.”
We can customize a process improvement training course to fit within your organization’s culture, business strategy or preferred methodology to create a value-added experience for your practitioners that will deliver real business results for the organization.
Types of Practitioner Training
Black Belt
Six Sigma Black Belts are practitioners who lead customer experience transformational project efforts to improve customer satisfaction and business metrics by applying the appropriate tools to achieve greater process efficiency and effectiveness. The term “Black Belt” has roots from the martial arts which refers to a dedicated, extremely focused, well-trained, and expert individual in his/her field. These characteristics are similar for Six Sigma Black Belts because these individuals have received intense training to be highly skilled in the strategies, tactics, and application tools of Six Sigma and Lean.
Often called change agents, or process improvement drivers, the Black Belts are knowledgeable and highly skilled in the use of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology, including Lean tools. They may guide and assist cross functional teams in pursuit of process improvement goals in the form of project leadership, training, facilitation, and analysis and advice on a variety of manufacturing and business processes.
Black Belt Characteristics include:
- Process and product knowledge
- Advanced statistical methods knowledge
- Implementation and application experience
- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent project management and team leadership skills
- Leadership and “soft-skills”
- Motivation, drive, and the will to learn
Black Belt Training involves:
- 20 days of advanced and intense classroom training (spread out over 4 – 5 months)
- Applicable industry-specific examples
- Hands-on, in-class case study project
- Student application of tools to their company-specific projects
- Student project report-outs
- Team activities and exercises to reinforce learnings
- Assignments to support tool understanding
Black Belt Certification involves:
- Completion of all training sessions and assignments/exercises
- Completion of at least 2 company-specific Black Belt projects with measurable results approved by company leadership
- Final presentation of the completed company-specific Black Belt projects
- Comprehensive written exam
The Black Belts that Sharon has trained compared to the previous groups trained by other companies have developed into mature and dynamic black belts that have worked on complex projects across [our organization’s] divisions delivering millions of dollars in revenue and cost savings.
Pete – Project Manager Executive
(Black Belt Student)
Green Belt
Six Sigma Green Belts, like Black Belts, are practitioners who lead customer experience transformational project efforts to improve customer satisfaction and business metrics by applying the appropriate tools to achieve greater process efficiency and effectiveness. The difference between the two types of practitioners is that the Green Belts do not receive as great of depth and application of the Six Sigma tools and typically focus on shorter term process improvement projects. Green Belts do lead process improvement teams and/or may support a Black Belt who is leading a larger-scale cross-functional project. The Green Belts often make up more of a “critical mass” of process improvement practitioners whereas the Black Belt practitioners may represent only about 1% – 5% of the company’s population.
Often called change agents, or process improvement drivers, the Green Belts are knowledgeable and skilled in the use of the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control) methodology, including Lean tools. They may guide and assist teams in pursuit of process improvement goals in the form of project leadership, Black Belt project participation and analysis and advice on a variety of manufacturing and business processes within their functional realm.
Green Belt Characteristics include:
- Process and product knowledge
- Basic statistical methods knowledge
- Implementation and application experience
- Strong communication skills
- Strong project management and team leadership skills
- Leadership development and “soft-skills”
- Motivation, drive, and the will to learn
Green Belt Training involves:
- 10 days of intense classroom training (spread out over 2 – 3 months)
- Applicable industry-specific examples
- Hands-on, in-class case study project
- Student application of tools to their company-specific projects
- Student project report-outs
- Team activities and exercises to reinforce learnings
- Assignments to support tool understanding
Green Belt Certification involves:
- Completion of all training sessions and assignments/exercises
- Completion of at least 1 company-specific Green Belt project with measurable results approved by company leadership
- Final presentation of the completed company-specific Green Belt project
- Comprehensive written exam
I have to say you would have to be one of the most inspirational people I have ever met. Your enthusiasm, and engagement with your [Green Belt] students is amazing and I know I am not alone in that thought. If you asked this student, who left school early to chase a dream for 15 years, that one day he would be doing University level studies, I would have laughed and said no way. I certainly didn’t think it would be possible to push myself like that, and I can confidently say it had a lot to do with the teacher, and I can’t thank you enough for that.
Nigel – Continuous Improvement & Efficiency Coordinator
(Green Belt student)
Yellow Belt
Six Sigma Yellow Belts are team members, often the “subject matter experts”, who are excellent contributors on a Lean/Six Sigma process improvement project team led by a Green or Black Belt that impacts the Yellow Belt’s functional area. Yellow Belts can also apply basic tools to areas for which they are responsible for improving process efficiency and effectiveness. Yellow Belts have a solid understanding of the Six Sigma methodology and the basic tools used to improve processes. Because of their Lean and Six Sigma basic tools knowledge, they are able to be effective team members who can assist the Green or Black Belt team leader with data collection and other key project requirements.
Yellow Belt Characteristics include:
- Process and product expertise (“subject matter experts”)
- Basic statistical methods knowledge
- Effective team skills
- Motivation, drive, and the will to learn
Yellow Belt Training involves:
- 4 days of classroom training (may be spread out over 1 – 2 months)
- Applicable industry-specific examples
- Hands-on, in-class case study project
- Team activities and exercises to reinforce learnings
One of the better courses I’ve done, and I’ve done my fair share. I though the facilitator was great, she was brilliant at challenging our thinking and controlled the group really well.
Andrew – Business Development Manager
(Yellow Belt student)
Custom
We can tailor a training program to meet your organization’s needs for continuous process improvement that can include customized examples within the “Belt” trainings, customized specific tool training modules, or a course that follows your organization’s nomenclature that may reference any type of process improvement methodology.
Our goal is to deliver exceptional training to your teams so that they may apply their learnings to real-company process improvement opportunities and problems to achieve measurable results.
The session was well delivered, content was intensive but the breaks we were given more than made up for this, our expectations were taken down at the beginning of the session, referred to throughout the session and clarified at the end to ensure everyone got the most out of the session. This was a well presented, insightful day that I thoroughly enjoyed.
Greg – Control Center Officer
Customized
Customized training can be done for your organization on-site to include company specific examples, data sets, standard organization templates and forms, and nomenclature consistent with the organization’s strategy.
Open Enrollment
Open enrollment training allows your organization to join other non-competing companies in similar or different industries that teaches our proven curriculum in an off-site setting.
