Green Belt - Improvement Project Leader (Lean Six Sigma & Quality)

Pam Vecellio • April 21, 2021

Processes not performing optimally need improvements. You will learn how to lead/facilitate process improvement projects to accelerate process times and increase quality 20%-90%.  

Goal of Improvement Project Leader / Green Belt:

The goal is to develop the knowledge and skills to lead a team through all phases of an improvement project, utilize improvement, change, and project management techniques, and help create sustainable results. Everyone brings a team-based problem to begin and advance during training. 

Benefits:

  • Skills and confidence to lead and coach team members through improvement projects. 
  • Projects achieve or exceed measurable benefits.
  • Stronger solutions in place.
  • Increased team engaged.
  • Knowledge and skills to lead more improvement projects. 
  • Unlimited access to improvement projects templates, job aids, and a storyboard.
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Agenda: 

Training: 32 hours of education and application. Participants bring a scenario to class on which to focus and practice.

  1. Project Leadership
  • Roles and Skills
  • Project skills, tips, & structure
  • Effectively building a productive team

  2. Understanding the current state

  • Value stream mapping
  • Subprocess mapping
  • Spaghetti diagrams and information circles
  • Project return on investment

  3. Problem Solving

  • Use of data, measures, and basic statistical analysis
  • Cause and effect analysis; determine root cause of problems
  • Prioritization of wastes and solutions

  4. Managing the Change & Continual Improving

  • Preparing others for change
  • Dealing with problematic behaviors
  • Team facilitation education, templates, and lots of practices.  

  5. Effectively Implementing Improvements:

  • Standardized work and training
  • Adult teaching
  • Extracting learning
  • Effective installation of changes and continually improving


Application and Coaching: One-on-one coaching until results are achieved.

Certification: Participation in this course and completion of 1 project = Continuous Improvement Green Belt CERTIFICATION.