Black Belt Course Overview
Learn all the key skills associated with Lean and Six Sigma as well as how to apply the solutions you generate through learning change management skills. This online Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course is designed to enable you to solve problems permanently in any industry or function using a DMAIC approach. As a Black Belt, you will be able to challenge the current state in any company and provide solutions which will transform the business: customer service, staff satisfaction, costs, profit. You will master the skills needed to achieve real business change.
Access the course anytime, anywhere and take as long as you need to certify with our lifetime access to the training. Certification is obtained by passing our worldwide recognised exam enabling you to demonstrate your skills and knowledge and show you are a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
What's Covered in the Black Belt Course?
The course content covers all the topics as outlined by IASSC, BQF, ASQ as well as many Change Management topics not covered by other training courses. This enables full certification quickly and effectively. The course takes small steps to build up your knowledge and how to apply this learning. Starting from basics we build your knowledge into a deep understanding of all elements of Lean, Six Sigma and Change Management. Don’t buy a course which is just reading slides which don’t cover full topics or all the required topics to certify as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt.
Introduction Phase
Understand what Lean Six Sigma is and the benefits of applying it. The roles, responsibilities and criteria needed for Lean Six Sigma to be a success. What stops companies and individuals when trying to apply Lean Six Sigma principles. How to measure success and how to explain to others the concepts of Lean Six Sigma and DMAIC. Topics include:
- Introduction to Lean – key principles, history and how to apply them
- Understanding waste / non-value-added steps – The 8 wastes
- Understanding standardisation and how to apply it
- Introduction to Six Sigma – key principles, history
- Y=F(x)+e
- Understand variation and how to eliminate it
- Lean and Six Sigma working together
- Benefits of Lean Six Sigma and how to obtain them
- Elevator speeches
- The DMAIC process and how to use it for success
- The gate review process
- Key roles and responsibilities associated with Lean Six Sigma
- How to be an effective Black Belt
- Common issues when trying to implement Lean Six Sigma
- How to select a project / problem
- How to certify as a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Define Phase
Learn how to select and set up a project to enable success. How to engage a team to solve a problem. How to present to your sponsor and senior managers. Â All the tools associated with defining a problem and engaging staff to support the solutions. Topics include:
- Overview of Define
- Understanding and completing a Project charter
- Tools needed to define a problem
- Problem statements
- In and out of scope
- SMART goals
- SIPOC process mapping
- Calculating the benefits
- Tools needed to understand the customers
- Voice of the customer
- Kano analysis
- Qualify Function Deployment (QFD)
- Project Management tools
- Project planning
- Risk Management
- FMEA
- Tools needed to engage and influence others
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Communication planning and strategy
- Team Selection and Launch
- Influencing skills
- Facilitation skills
- Running Kaizen events
Measure Phase
Starting from the basics, we build up your learning of statistics so you will be able to understand complicated terms by the end of the phase. Learn the importance of data and statistics. How to collect the right data in the right way to ensure it is robust. How to present data so others can understand and interpret it. Understand how much data is required and how to engage people to collect if effectively. Topics include:
- Overview of Measure Phase
- Introduction to Statistics and key terms
- What is data and tools to represent and visualise it
- Time series plots
- Scatter plots
- Pie charts
- Histograms
- Pareto charts
- How to understand a process and what happens in it
- Introduction to process maps
- Swimlane diagrams
- Activity diagrams
- Flow charts
- Six Sigma process mapping
- Key data to collect around a process
- Cycle time, process time etc
- Critical to customer requirements
- Process metrics
- Introduction to Minitab software to make it all easy
- What is data and how to collect it robustly
- Sampling
- Measurement system analysis
- Gauge R&R
- Control charts of all kinds and how to interpret them
- Process Capability how do you calculate it and use it
- How to implement quick wins
Analyse Phase
Learn the skills needed to identify and prove a root cause of a problem. Understand the analysis tools needed to close in on root causes to simple and complex problems. Learn graphical and statistical analysis techniques. Topics include:
- Overview of the Analyse Phase
- How to identify potential root causes
- Brainstorming
- Brain writing and affinity diagrams
- Cause and effect diagrams
- 5 Whys
- Pareto analysis
- How to understand graphical analysis
- Tools to enable statistical analysis
- Hypothesis Testing
- Analysis of Variance
- Two Sample T-Tests
- Correlation and Regression
- Non-Parametric Statistics
- Multiple Regression
- How to present your root causes
Improve Phase
Once you understand your root causes and have the data to prove them, you will learn how to develop a list of potential solutions and then use tools and techniques to select the most appropriate ones. Learn tools to enable you to generate solutions. How to pilot and implement solutions successful and present your findings to engage and obtain buy in. Topics include:
- Overview of the Improve phase
- How to generate solutions
- Key Lean tools to solve problems
- 5S
- Visual Management
- Mistake Proofing
- Kanban and pull systems
- Line balancing
- TPM and OEE
- SMED (quick changeovers)
- Littles Law
- Prioritisation tools and techniques
- Voting systems – pareto, weighted etc.
- Decision matrix
- XY matrix
- Pugh matrix
- How to validate your solution
- Piloting
- Design of experiments
- How to implement a successful project
- How to validate your benefits
Control Phase
Learn the key steps to ensure a problem is solved permanently. How to train others, set standards and ensure understanding. How to look for other opportunities and how to show the benefits you have obtained for the company. Topics include:
- Overview of the Control Phase
- SOP’s and how to set them up
- How to train others and test knowledge
- Control plans
- Proving your benefits to others
- Obtaining roll out opportunities
- Celebrating success
Change Management Skills
To enable full acceptance of any solution and to ensure engagement all Black Belts must learn and practise Change Management Skills. This Black Belt course includes the following topics to support your success:
- Understanding change
- Presentation skills
- Facilitation skills
- Influencing skills
- Communication skills
- Stakeholder analysis
- Kotter’s change management model
What are the Benefits of the Online Black Belt Training?
Following the completion of this Black Belt Lean Six Sigma course you will be able to apply Lean Six Sigma in any industry or function. You will be able to explain and train the concepts to others. You will be able to prove the benefits and improvements you have made in a company. This often leads to promotion, increased reputation and pay rises.
You will have a worldwide recognised qualification with access to the course for life meaning you will never be able to forget your new skills.
Black Belts are typically more confident, more skilled and a highly valuable member of any company.
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Certification and Accreditation
It is vital that your certification covers all the essential topics associated with Lean Six Sigma and Change Management. If it is not, you will not have a qualification that is accepted by employers. Learning Lean certification follows a very simple process; Compete the training, pass the end of course exam and you are a fully certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. Our test has been designed to be the most robust in the market which is why our certification is accepted worldwide. Some aspects of the course will cover Minitab, however, this is an optional software and is not required for the course or exam.
Our online Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course is accredited by CSSC (Council for Six Sigma Certification), who are the largest certification body in the world.
Who is the Black Belt Course for?
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt training is aimed at anyone who wishes to improve a process or a company. Anyone wishing a role in management, quality, business improvement, project management, process analysis, change management etc. It can be taken by anyone with any background due to the fact that the course is designed to start from basics and work upwards so there are no prerequisites.
About the FREE Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Exam
All Learning Lean training courses include FREE certification exams. These exams ensure that your accreditation qualification is a true test of your knowledge and can stand scrutiny. To ensure you pass we provide the following as part of our course fees:
Daniel –
Good course. Very informative. DMAIC covered in great detail. Would highly recommend this course for any aspiring Black Belts.
Constructive feedback I would give is that some parts are a little repetitive. Often the narration of a slide seems to drag on longer than it needs to and I often felt like some very basic and simple parts had a ‘teaching your grandma to suck eggs” feel. Also the final exam was very easy, too easy in fact. So much of the course was not covered in the exam. Felt a bit ‘cheap’ being able to pass an exam so easily.
But still the knowledge have gained from the course is great and will certainly be of benefit in my future professions.
Rafaella –
Very good course
NEIL –
The course was well presented, clear, concise and started with the basics and built upwards. Total time spent on course and exam was 74 hours. Would recommend.
F –
Please bear in mind this is a self paced course without a tutor and you do not complete Black Belt example case studies at the end but you do take a multiple choice exam. I spent a lot longer on the course to fit it around work and to try out every exercise in a real life scenario. This has been the biggest benefit to me in trying these techniques out live in a real environment as you go along. This meant it took a little longer but I now have practical experience of each stage and I am now going to take on a full BlackBelt project that I began last week. The qualification is very useful but the experience I’ve built over the time doing the course is vital. I have reported back modules you cant hear and the powerpoint slides are basic (sometimes outside the screen view) as is the speaking voice but at least you can focus on content which is at the perfect level for me to understand, engage with and relate to.
Shane –
Very comprehensive course, i highly recommend
Kris –
The Minitab section was particularly useful!
Interesting insights and links to actual projects which helps to put things into perspective and to get you to think about the situation in greater depth.
Some of the slides could be adjusted to stop them from being cut off from the edge of the screen, maybe just a resolution issue on my computer? but worth checking as it appears that others have mentioned it too.
Would recommend.
Osama –
found it useful
Michal –
Very good essential and practical course with many life examples and multitude questions which are helpful in order to better understand the philosophy of Lean Six Sigma.
Strongly recommended for all who want to become certified lean six sigma black belts.
Stephen –
Found the course very well structured and full of good content.
Very good to be able to access this resource at any point in the future.
Anil –
Course content has been very good, should give the option on downloading the slides for offline reference, and also have access to minitab software.
Overall its a good course to do at your own pace.
Jonathan –
The course is well laid out, the content is clear & easy to understand & the examples help to re-enforce the learning. Thank you
Emile –
A well structured presentation, I would recommend adding small examinations (quiz) after every DMAIC step.
Stephen –
Great Course, good layout.
Great knowledge of course content.
Easily accessible
Recommend!
Patrick –
I have been practicing lean and six sigma for a number of years but without a formal qualification at black belt level (I was only Green Belt certified).
The lockdown period has provided me with some ideal time to sit, learn and revise on the course to get my formal Lean six sigma black belt qualification. The course contents are quite comprehensive, covers all the necessary principles for lean and six sigma. Clear teaching and well paced. Took me a good 12 days to go through the course and pass the exam. I have learned few new things and very beneficial.
Cost effective and value for money.
Thank you and looking forward to continue to gain the next level of my qualification.
Jason –
I was looking for some formalised learning which would improve my contribution at work and led to a recognised certification while furloughed during the Coronavirus pandemic. I had tried out various free online learning which was great but realised on return to work, or if the worst happened in finding a new opportunity, these unlinked unaccredited courses would not give me recognition for the time I would invest. I chose Lean Six Sigma Black Belt because it matched the work I do and would bring together lots of streams of learning and experience in a formal way. I chose Learning Lean after looking at the different approved UK providers on the ASQ , IASSC and CSSC web sites and looking at the mix of cost/content/time to complete and during lockdown whether I could do the whole thing online. There are different options with other providers to include tutors and online classes with costs that reflect that. For me, I had 2 – 3 weeks to devote and needed to go at my own speed to get through the learning and take the exam. My work means it would be challenging to complete a formal project in a classic way but I wanted recognition for the tools I gained knowledge of.
This course fits those specific needs perfectly. There are words which go off the page on some of the Minitab slides but it’s not a big hindrance. I would recommend not downloading the 30 free demo version of Minitab till about chapter 19 when you need it. The format of the learning is with narrated slides and suite of downloads which help animate things with templates and worked examples – much like handouts in a classroom. I completed the course in 12 working days taking between 4 – 6 hours per day.
I will definitely benefit from what I have learned – thank you very much.
Richard –
A good well structured course which will prove to be a good guide for any future work commitments.
Maarten –
I enjoyed the course. It is comprehensive, clear in every way and offered several ideas to further put into practice.
Philip –
Great Course
Davide –
Very happy with the content, the platform and the overall convenience of the course. Will definitely check out other courses here on Learning Lean.
Adrian –
Loved the course, feel structured and informative. Easy to use and access from all locations. highly recommended.
Juliet –
Informative and well structured
Peter –
Really useful and comprehensive. Put structure to a lot of what I had learnt over the years. I would recommend this course to others
Heather –
Quite repetitive, good content, could do with variety in the speaking voices
Thomas –
Good course that reinforced my previous green belt training. Possible improvements that could make the experience better include….
Audio on some slides too quiet. Minitab examples not always working with Minitab 18 (cannot open file). A longer final exam with more calculation questions please.
Emmett –
Really benefited from this course and training. I preferred being able to learn at my own pace. I was using additional material along with this to study and found it very useful. Thanks for providing this curse. Also i would suggest ensuring you complete the sections with mini tab while you have the trial. I got lucky as my work has mini tab so could take my time with it. Again i think it was a very beneficial course for myself would recommend it thanks
Peter –
Very comprehensive. A lot to go through and learn. I would have liked more practical exercises during the course and maybe some testing (mini exam) after each main module. Voices are clear and understandable and the slides are set out well. Some slides however go over the edge but did not detract from the overall training. Possibly worth giving some guidance prior to the start of each session as to how long the session should on average take to complete (rough guide). Really enjoyed and learnt a huge amount in a short period of time.
Emily –
Some parts were a little repetitive, especially if you are already a Green Belt. But overall, good, clear content.
Pana –
I have just completed the course and I would like to thank you. It is a very useful and thorough training and found it to be very well customised and insightful for anyone who wants to be involved with Lean.
Christopher –
Thank you very much. I really enjoyed the course and it’s been extremely helpful.
Katie –
Unlimited access is fantastic, I’ll be coming back even though I’ve finished the course. I found the course to be very good to follow. Very logical and easy to keep up with. The audio was low in a couple of places although using a headphone sorted that.
Paul –
Course content was very complete, concise and easy to interpret. Although some of the course content had no audio background, it did not affect the overall presentation.
Thanks a lot; I’ll recommend this course to my colleagues who have a similar management background.
Jamie –
This course was perfect for me, Being an expat working in china i was looking for a course in english with certification and that exactly what i have achived.
The price is reasonable compared that of BSI and other companines but the price is not detrement to the quality of the course and the materials coverd.
Simon –
Very informative and comprehensive course.
Jason –
The course content was good although I did find parts of it repetative. It was clear to work through and very user friendly.
Tom –
I just want to reiterate that I had an amazing experience with learning lean. The whole team is very professional.