On Six Sigma Training

Posted by: meikah | 19 June 2008 | 12:12 am

The Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma training makes or breaks your (Lean) Six Sigma deployment. Based on what I know, it’s not enough that you send someone to training or that you just woke up one day and found Six Sigma appealing.

Thus, you need to prepare for it, and here are my suggestions:

1. Let management initiate the training and the Six Sigma initiative.
2. Decide on the kind of training that your company needs first: Six Sigma Champion? Six Sigma Black Belt, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Six Sigma Green Belt?
3. Determine the objectives you want to achieve after the Six Sigma training.
4. Are your expectations realistic?
5. Identify already the Six Sigma project that will be undertaken.
6. If you are on the team that selects who are sent to training, choose those who have worked in the shop floor. They have a better grasp of how operations go.
7. Evaluate the attitude and capability of the trainees. For one, they must have the inherent desire for change and improvement.
8. Know that a (Master) Black Belt will have a full Six Sigma schedule after the training, thus he shouldn’t be working on other tasks aside from Six Sigma.
9. Build a strong Six Sigma team based on #s 5&6.
10. Prepare for the cost of this quality initiative.

If you are the trainee:

1. Know the operations that you’re handling.
2. Know which training are you taking.
3. Examine your capabilities against that training.
4. Prepare yourself: read, research, consult.
5. Be an instrument of change, innovation.
6. Be open minded.
7. Be trainable.
8. Study.
9. Practice.
10. Be a team player.

Do you want to add to the list?

You may also want to check out:
Developing BBs and MBBs: Three Questions to Answer
Start Small with New Lean Six Sigma Initiatives

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