Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

The Six Sigma Green Belt Certification course developed exclusively for the REI is designed to give the student a solid understanding of Six Sigma principles and teach you how to effectively work within a Six Sigma ; Learn to improve quality and reduce defects within your organization.

Six Sigma Green Belts should have a good understanding of the DMAIC process and an understanding of how process changes can be implemented. They work directly with Black Belts to define processes within their ; They begin by determining who is the owner of the process they are working to improve. This is the single individual or group with responsibility for the end-to-end ; Next they define the scope, boundaries, or limitations for the ; The final step is to develop a high level process map which shows the start and end points of the process.

Six Sigma focuses on measuring and quantifying the impact of an improvement project. It requires buy-in across the business for the project to make changes based upon those measurements irrespective of personal views. Guesswork and assumptions have no place, it is a precise process. The goal of the Management and Strategy Institute is to teach you the key competencies required to function in the role of a Six Sigma Green Belt. As you go through the training material you will learn the competencies listed below. The SSGBC exam is a timed, online exam. It consists of approximately 65 questions and has a required passing score of 70%.

Competencies

• Why is Six Sigma used in business, and where did it come from. o Learning Outcome: The Student will be able to define Six Sigma.
• It all begins with a simple equation. Although Six Sigma talks a lot about statistical analysis and measurements and various other mathematical applications, at the core of the process is one simple equation. o Learning Outcome: Understand the basic function of you.
• Identify where variances are occurring in a function o Learning Outcome: Basic understanding of Identifying where variances are occurring in a function.
• Discuss other process improvement methodologies o Learning Outcome: Have an understanding of the other process improvement methodologies and how they differ from Six Sigma.
• Fundamentally, the training and use of Six Sigma philosophies and principles will allow employees and project teams to understand how systems interrelate and how to use the application of quality improvement methodologies which complement Six Sigma, such as Lean. Learning Outcome: Understand Six Sigma philosophies and how to recognize opportunity.
• Quality is not about what you produce being accurate as you see it, but rather as the customer sees it. Learning Outcome: Understand how to frame quality into what is important to the customer.
• Six Sigma is a top-down methodology that means that the decision to implement comes from the top - whether that is the top of the business, your division of the business, or some other production unit. o Learning Outcome: The student understands the "how and why" regarding a company launching a quality improvement initiative like Six Sigma.
• How Six Sigma team are organized and understanding the role of each "belt" o Learning Outcome: Understand how team are formed and the role of each belt level within the Six Sigma project.
• Every Six Sigma project will follow the same process in a systematic and uniform method known as DMAIC, an acronym made up from the first letters of each element - Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. Learning Outcome: Understand and define DMAIC.