Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification

In this course, participants are exposed to a range of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) strategies with an emphasis on their practical utilization and clear understanding.  The goal of this course is to help anyone establish a foundation in LSS techniques so they can understand the concepts. This foundation is an important asset for people involved with a process improvement effort that may not be familiar with Lean Six Sigma methodologies.

The course is designed to teach LSS from a “single voice” perspective and teaches individuals within an organization to work collectively to implement LSS techniques and improve business functions across their organization.

Individuals completing this 5 hour course will receive a certificate indicating they are Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Trained and will earn 5 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Our Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification online course has been designed to be 508 compliant and conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA.

The course can be purchased via credit card or using the GSA Schedule Contract number: 47QRAA19D0029.

Syllabus

1. History of Lean Six Sigma; the DMAIC Method
2. Organize and execute a Lean Six Sigma Effort
3. The Current State
4. Improvement Analysis and Determination
5. Course Summary and conclusion

 

Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification

$99.00

12 weeks of access

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Instructor

Frank Vega is the founder of The Efficiency Group, with almost 30 years of experience working with government agencies and private enterprises. He completed his graduate studies at The American University in Washington DC and received his Lean Practitioner certification from Villanova University. Frank is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Throughout his career, Frank honed the process of systems re-engineering and business function improvement utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This effort resulted in the development of the proprietary HELIX-S methodology.

He has extensive expertise working with federal agencies including the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. Frank frequently briefs senior leadership on Lean Six Sigma deployment and often speaks at conferences on a wide variety of issues related to business process improvement.

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

In this course, participants learn a range of Lean Six Sigma (LSS) strategies, tools, and techniques with an emphasis on their practical utilization.  The goal of this course is to help anyone become proficient in LSS techniques so that they can put them to work within their organizations. 

The course is designed to teach LSS from a “single voice” perspective, showing individuals how to work collectively from a common perspective to implement LSS techniques and improve business functions across their organization.

Upon completion individuals will have the knowledge and understanding to actively participate in LSS efforts. Moreover their advanced knowledge will enable them to lead small LSS projects under the supervision of a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.

Individuals completing this 8 hour course will receive a certificate indicating they are Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Trained and will earn 8 Professional Development Units (PDUs).

Our Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification online course has been designed to be 508 compliant and conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA.

The course can be purchased via credit card or using the GSA Schedule Contract number: 47QRAA19D0029.

Syllabus

1. History of Lean Six Sigma; the DMAIC Method
2. Organize and execute a Lean Six Sigma Effort
3. The Current State
4. Improvement Analysis and Determination
5. Modelling your “To-Be” state
6. Deploying your “To-Be” process
7. Maintaining your new process
8. Lean Six Sigma data analysis
9. Course Summary and conclusion

 

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification

$250.00

12 weeks of access

Enroll in this Course

Instructor

Frank Vega is the founder of The Efficiency Group, with almost 30 years of experience working with government agencies and private enterprises. He completed his graduate studies at The American University in Washington DC and received his Lean Practitioner certification from Villanova University. Frank is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Throughout his career, Frank honed the process of systems re-engineering and business function improvement utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This effort resulted in the development of the proprietary HELIX-S Methodology.

He has extensive expertise working with federal agencies including the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. Frank frequently briefs senior leadership on Lean Six Sigma deployment and often speaks at conferences on a wide variety of issues related to business process improvement.

Lean Six Sigma for Managers

Lean Six Sigma for Managers is a course designed specifically for managers and directors of teams being trained in Business Process Improvement. It presents an abridged version of the concepts and tools in the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification course along with key ideas geared specifically at managing teams looking to enhance their productivity.

In many cases managers will have their staff complete the training course while not taking the course themselves. While we encourage all staff to be trained, we understand managers have different responsibilities and time constraints.

Lean Six Sigma for Managers is a short two-hour course that gives managers the foundation and vocabulary of Lean Six Sigma as well as recommendations for how to:

• Promote Lean Six Sigma adoption by staff
• Evaluate the merits of Lean Six Sigma proposals
• Prevent workers from reverting to old habits
• Encourage continuous improvement
• Much more!

This course is under development and will be ready soon!

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Instructor

Frank Vega is the founder of The Efficiency Group, with almost 30 years of experience working with government agencies and private enterprises. He completed his graduate studies at The American University in Washington DC and received his Lean Practitioner certification from Villanova University. Frank is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Throughout his career, Frank honed the process of systems re-engineering and business function improvement utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This effort resulted in the development of the proprietary HELIX-S Methodology.

He has extensive expertise working with federal agencies including the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. Frank frequently briefs senior leadership on Lean Six Sigma deployment and often speaks at conferences on a wide variety of issues related to business process improvement.

Building a Culture of Improvement

Staff and managers that have been trained in Lean Six Sigma techniques often feel a great sense of accomplishment when they put those tools into practice. They see the benefits of removing waste and increasing productivity. Moreover, they get a sense of accomplishment that they did something that made their work and their enterprise better; a real sense of pride.

But as new processes become ingrained workers and focus on their tasks they may stop thinking about the tools they learned and how those tools can be applied in other applications.

Building a Culture of Improvement is a short two-hour course that that is offered free of charge to students that have completed the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification or the Lean Six Sigma for Managers courses. This course offers students practical tools they can implement to keep the lessons they learned fresh and pertinent to their enterprise. Including:

• You’ve completed a Lean Six Sigma Project – now what?
• Tools to use to identify processes needing improvement
• We can’t measure that – how do we know we can improve it
• How to make continuous improvement fun
• Much more!

This course is under development and will be ready soon!

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Instructor

Frank Vega is the founder of The Efficiency Group, with almost 30 years of experience working with government agencies and private enterprises. He completed his graduate studies at The American University in Washington DC and received his Lean Practitioner certification from Villanova University. Frank is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Throughout his career, Frank honed the process of systems re-engineering and business function improvement utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This effort resulted in the development of the proprietary HELIX Process.

He has extensive expertise working with federal agencies including the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. Frank frequently briefs senior leadership on Lean Six Sigma deployment and often speaks at conferences on a wide variety of issues related to business process improvement.

This sample lesson will provide you a sense for how materials are presented within the online course. There is one main module in the sample called: Understanding the Present and Predicting the Future.

This class module, Understanding the Present and Predicting the Future, presents the factors that define the present state of your business processes and builds a model that defines the existing methods for how your business processes operate. Next, you will define improvement opportunities that will make the process better and more efficient. Then you will learn to evaluate these improvements to identify which will be part of the new process. Finally, you will build your new process model that defines the future process. These items will be covered along with the methods for getting this new process approved by management and moved to development and implementation.

The class sample module is taken from the Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt Certification curriculum. This module, like all modules in the online course, has been designed to be 508 compliant and conform to the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, Level AA.

 

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Instructor

Frank Vega is the founder of The Efficiency Group, with almost 30 years of experience working with government agencies and private enterprises. He completed his graduate studies at The American University in Washington DC and received his Lean Practitioner certification from Villanova University. Frank is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Throughout his career, Frank honed the process of systems re-engineering and business function improvement utilizing Lean Six Sigma techniques. This effort resulted in the development of the proprietary HELIX-S Methodology.

He has extensive expertise working with federal agencies including the Department of State, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the National Institutes of Health. Frank frequently briefs senior leadership on Lean Six Sigma deployment and often speaks at conferences on a wide variety of issues related to business process improvement.