Compensation for Black Belts
Posted by: meikah | 27 May 2010 | 11:22 pm
If you are an organization that are developing Black Belts and doesn’t have an idea about the compensation, here’s a good article for you.
Read: Six Sigma Black Belts – Salary and Compensation
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5 Elements to Consider When Developing Master Black Belts
Posted by: meikah | 26 April 2010 | 6:53 pm
When deploying Six Sigma for the first time, many corporations go into training the in-house Black Belts and Green Belts. During this stage, they get consultants to do the overseeing and mentoring of the program. This is typically a role of the Master Black Belt whose expertise is one of the long-range goals of an organization.
However, once an organization has already trained a critical number of Green Belts (GBs) and Black Belts (BBs), and management is convinced of the value of their projects, the internal development of Master Black Belts (MBBs) becomes a higher priority.
An iSixSigma article by Candace Medina lists five primary elements to consider before launching in-house MBB development:
- Leadership perception of the MBB role
- Deployment structure
- Candidate selection
- Curriculum content
- Demonstration criteria (abilities and responsibilities)
Filed under: Black Belt, Master Black Belt, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Training
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Six Sigma Belt Trainings and Employment
Posted by: meikah | 21 September 2009 | 6:30 pm
An article on Practitioner’s Toolbox says that during this crisis, a person with Six Sigma belt training has more chances of getting employment.
There is new trend in people to increase their employment value through Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training. It follows a belief that one should if you keep studying, follow your hearts interest it will lead to greater things in life. While students are between employment they are volunteering in the community, taking the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt skills they have learned to improve a community agency’s success, and to network with leaders.
This is a clear indication that many organizations are seeing the value of Six Sigma or Lean Six Sigma, and that they have confidence in Six Sigma practitioners.
That’s a tip for you this week.
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Vestas’s Big Savings Due to Lean Six Sigma
Posted by: meikah | 18 August 2009 | 8:03 pm
The Economic Times reports:
Vestas Wind Energy India, the Chennai headquartered wind power company, has saved $10 million in its expenses in the past three years through implementation of a Six Sigma Methodology, patented by Dr.Shree Nanguneri, CEO of Millenium Global Business Solutions (MGBS).
“The Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology that we adopted warranted that a mass awareness be created among employees. We educated a majority of them on the Yellow Belt concept and put them on the field,” said Vestas supply chain management and quality director Dhananjay Joshi. “This enhanced collective competency as opposed to that of just a few employees at the senior level, as in the Black Belt methodology.”
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The Role of a Black Belt in Successful Six Sigma Implementation
Posted by: meikah | 20 July 2009 | 8:32 pm
I got these tips from Ditch the Black:
- explain all Six Sigma philosophies, principles, systems and tools and identify their impact on various business processes
- able understand the chain of leadership and the various Six Sigma roles and responsibilities of those roles
- able to define benchmarking and understand financial and ways to measure business performance
- need to understand basic techniques and processes as well as probability and distribution
- define the seven classic wastes, multivariate tools, and define terms such as kaizen, kaizen blitz, and theory of constraints
- able to explain common DFSS and DFX methodologies
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Webinar: Leveraging Lean Six Sigma to Achieve Green Benefits
Posted by: meikah | 12 May 2009 | 9:31 pm
Please join United Airlines Six Sigma Black Belt, Milad Alhir, as she leads an ISSSP-hosted Focused Session describing how to use Lean Six Sigma to assess the business impact of Green initiatives.
Specifically, in this Focused Session, Milad will explore how to:
- Leverage the critical success factors that United has identified as necessary for generating green benefits
- Evaluate the overall impact of green initiatives on the business
- Calculate shareholder value and cost savings from Lean Six Sigma
- Improve shareholder value by reducing the company’s overall energy consumption and associated costs
- Leverage Project Portfolio Management technology to track the impact of green initiatives.
The schedule: May 19, 2009 — 8:30AM PT / 11:30AM ET
Filed under: Black Belt, Lean Six Sigma, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations, Webinar
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Schwarze Industries Take on a Six Sigma Black Belt for President
Posted by: meikah | 29 March 2009 | 7:41 pm
ForConstructionPros.com reports that Schwarze Industries has a new president, Bob Faulhaber. What interested SixSig in this announcement is Faulhaber’s background on Six Sigma:
He is Toyota Production System trained, a Six Sigma Black Belt, and has over 30 years of manufacturing experience serving a variety of industries, including automotive, fire and rescue vehicles, telecommunications and industrial controls.
With this in his sleeve, I’m sure Faulhaber will bring in new good opportunities to Schwarze.
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Six Sigma Mistake-Proofing
Posted by: meikah | 4 March 2009 | 8:32 pm
An article on ezine talks about a Six Sigma team whose Champion was not satisfied with the customers’ feedback. And so, the Master Black Belt introduces the concept of mistake-proofing.
Mistake-Proofing is a technique where we use wisdom and ingenuity to create devices that allow us to do our job 100% defect free every time. You see, in the transactional and manufacturing worlds, we make mistakes because there are a lot of opportunities for defects. We know that 100% inspection will not catch all these errors, which leads us to believe that not much can be done. But, we should not accept these errors as inevitable. Experience has shown that with brainstorming and careful analysis of causes, any type of error can be reduced considerably, if not eliminated altogether. Mistake-Proofing focuses on removing some of these opportunities by replacing repetitive or error-prone tasks with tasks that can only be done the right way.
I like the idea that a Six Sigma team does not stop with the tools they have to reduce, if not eliminate, defects. The team finds more ways to reach a zero-defect status, and found it in this quality sigma mistake-proofing.
Filed under: Black Belt, Quality, Six Sigma, Team Dynamics
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Companies Prepare For Hard Times with Six Sigma Training
Posted by: meikah | 3 December 2008 | 8:44 pm
The global crisis is getting serious. I hear companies shutting down, or getting their employees to go on forced leaves, and worse retrenching.
As companies do all these things, they also are finding ways to stay afloat, and according to a news article on dBusinessNews:
The searches for the term “Six Sigma” in Google have increased almost 25% according to Google Trends. Further, searches for “Six Sigma Training,” “Six Sigma black belt” and “Six Sigma processes” are also up. Business training companies including Six Sigma Online are reporting 10-30% increases over 2007. This trend is attributed to the demand for improved efficiency in the workplace to shave costs.
In the same manner, the individual interest in Six Sigma is also caused by the competitive atmosphere in the workplace. To become more valuable to the company, workers see the need to be certified in Six Sigma.
So is it safe to say that during these hard times, Six Sigma pracitioners are better equipped than those who are not? Well, for one, they have more chances of finding work as trainers and consultants. 
Filed under: Black Belt, Green Belts, Six Sigma, Six Sigma Organizations, Training
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How Well Do You Know Your Black Belts?
Posted by: meikah | 25 September 2008 | 9:29 pm
Black Belts are important in a Six Sigma deployment. So it is important to choose them well, or choose your people to be Black Belts well.
How?
From iSixSigma:
The rigorous criteria can include:
- The expectations from the role.
- The opportunities and benefits from the role and the likely growth that the individual can expect on successful completion of the tenure.
- Superior past performance for several years.
- Prior experience with project activity.
- Minimum years of experience in the business.
The selection process must involve people from senior management, human resources and the Six Sigma deployment. Selection should not be compromised to accommodate the speed of implementation – taking time here, particularly in the initial years of deployment, sends the right message to the organization about the importance of the role. Of course, selecting the right people also ensures that the Six Sigma implementation is successful.
In other words, they must be able to lead the Six Sigma team. And in doing so, they must have the the ability to:
- Lead challenges from the front
- Listen and set the direction
- Manage change and mentor others
All these abilities are put to test during the tenure of a Black Belt. For example:
- Black Belts are assigned to challenging projects that do not have a known solution. Often, several teams have tried to work on such projects with little success.
- They lead cross-functional teams and are required to manage change issues without any real authority.
- During their tenure, they motivate and mentor Green Belts, who in turn juggle between working on projects and meeting the demands of their routine work.
- Black Belts engage with the leadership (Champions and executives) and also with peers and juniors to get their projects to succeed.
