Silicon Beach Training – Six Sigma Training

Six Sigma Training Courses

Silicon Beach Training offer a full range of six sigma training.

We offer scheduled Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt training, Project Management & MS Project Training, Six Sigma Black Belt Training & Minitab training. Please check dates page for Six Sigma training schedule.

Six Sigma Training Courses

At the heart of Six Sigma improvement and redesign activities are project teams. These teams will consist of people who want to use their knowledge and skills to improve the performance of processes and the business. Lean Six Sigma Green Belt training is focused on team members understanding and applying the Define Measure Analyse Improve and Control model which is the foundation of all Six Sigma projects. The focus of Six Sigma is fundamentally about quality, customer focus and cost, where as Lean is about cost and speed. This course blends a number of Lean concepts and tools into the Six Sigma DMAIC model.

The team leaders and team members are the brains and muscle behind the Lean Six Sigma programme it is critical that they are equipped with the appropriate skills and tools to enable them to deliver current and future improvements.

Leaders and managers of organisations are continually challenged by both the need for success now, and to then sustain that success into the future. There is a constant stream of "new ideas" of how to get and stay at the top. Six Sigma maybe considered as one of these "new ideas" but looking closely will show a significant difference. Six Sigma is a comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining and maximising business success. Six Sigma is uniquely driven by a close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of facts, data and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing, improving and reinventing business processes.

Upon completion of the Introduction to Lean Six Sigma training course students will understand:

• The fundamental concepts of Lean and Six Sigma
• The key steps of the Six Sigma Roadmap, how it can be adapted for their organisation and the organisational implications
• The key elements of the Define Measure Analyse Improve and Control (DMAIC) improvement model
• How to apply Lean Six Sigma to improve their organisations performance.

Projects are at the heart of a Six Sigma programme. The projects maybe led by a Green Belt or Black Belt but the bulk of the investigations, measurements and solution development will be undertaken by the team members. The aim of this two day Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training course is to improve the understanding and awareness of the team members. Yellow Belts will become effective team members faster which will result in improved performance and reduced timescales for your Six Sigma projects.

This intensive two day Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt training course will enable delegates to understand:

• The principles of quality improvement.
• The DMAIC improvement model and the key activities required at each stage.
• The importance of determining and understanding customer requirements.
• Basics of measuring and analysing performance.
• Identification and evaluation of potential solutions.
• Establishing ongoing process control and improvement.

Lean Six Sigma at its most effective is a Management System and philosophy that permeates all aspects of an organisation. It is much more than a set of metric-based problem solving and process improvement tools. Executives and Lean Six Sigma project Champions play a critical role in establishing and maintaining a Lean Six Sigma Management System to ensure delivery of sustainable breakthrough results.

Executives and Champions need to understand the key concepts and methods of Lean Six Sigma. Equally importantly they need to understand their critical role in aligning, mobilising and managing all elements of the organisation to implement a Six Sigma Management System. It is when Lean Six Sigma is implemented as a Management System that organisations see the see the greatest impact.

Leaders and managers of organisations are continually challenged by both the need for success now, and to then sustain that success into the future. There is a constant stream of "new ideas" of how to get and stay at the top. Six Sigma maybe considered as one of these "new ideas" but looking closely will show a significant difference. Six Sigma is a comprehensive and flexible system for achieving, sustaining and maximising business success.

Six Sigma is uniquely driven by a close understanding of customer needs, disciplined use of facts, data and statistical analysis, and diligent attention to managing, improving and reinventing business processes.

It is essential in any organisation to develop a mass of well qualified Black Belts which is critical to any successful Six Sigma initiative. They are the people that create value by leading successful projects, and demonstrating the tools and techniques of Six Sigma to others.

In most organisations there is recognition that employees who are trained Green Belts are capable of moving up to Black Belt level. It is important that this opportunity be available without having to complete the full Black Belt course.

This Six Sigma Black Belt Conversion training course has been designed to incorporate those elements from the Black Belt course that are different to the Green Belt course.

Whilst the topics covered are similar to those at Green Belt level, they are covered in the additional depth required to achieve Black Belt level.

Six Sigma is a performance improvement methodology and management system that is aimed at delivering break through performance in terms of quality and speed. It encompasses a wide range of proven best practice tools.

Our Six Sigma Black Belt training package makes it easy for organisations to get their staff to Black Belt level via a convinient modular approach.

Delegates attending the Six Sigma Blackbelt traonong course who only require Green Belt certrification can attend just the Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt course, whilst those who require Black Belt certification can go on to take Minitab and Six Sigma Black Belt Conversion courses.

At the heart of Six Sigma the improvement and redesign activities are project teams. These teams will consist of people who want to use their knowledge and skills to improve the performance of processes and the business. Six Sigma Green Belt training is focused on team members understanding and applying the Define Measure Analyse Improve and Control model which is the foundation of all Six Sigma projects. Delegates will have a choice of working on manufacturing or service based case studies throughout the five day training programme.

The team leaders and team members are the brains and muscle behind the Six Sigma training programme it is critical that they are equipped with the appropriate skills and tools to enable them to deliver current and future improvements.

This Six Sigma Change Management training course focuses on making the case for change, assessing the impact on the organisation, and developing change and communication strategies and plans to ensure the change course objectives are met.

This 2 day Six Sigma Change Management training course follows on from the 3 day Six Sigma Strategy training course.

Six Sigma is a management philosophy so it is appropriate that the training should start with management. This 3 day Six Sigma Strategy training course is the first critical element in a strategic deployment of Six Sigma.

Six Sigma Strategy training is split into two parts, during the first two days the various elements of the strategy are developed. The management team then spends 4 to 6 weeks verifying their assumptions and collect data on actual process performance. The final day reviews the performance data, verifies the strategy and chooses the initial Six Sigma projects and champions.

This Six Sigma team training course is focused on understanding and applying the Define Measure Analyse Improve and Control model which is the foundation of all Six Sigma projects.

Rather than deliver 10 days of mind numbing training upfront and leave the team to struggle in applying it to their projects a different approach is recommended. Our approach is to use training workshops that are a mixture of theory, work on generic exercises and work on organisation specific projects.

The result is that the organisation has trained a group of people and delivered up to 3 Six Sigma projects over the course of approximately six months.

Combination Project Management & MS Project training

This Project Management training course provides an introduction to the principles of Project Management followed by the practical use of Microsoft Project – course outline.