Improvement projects and belts

Lean Six Sigma Belts

The different training levels in Lean Six Sigma are often named after the colored belts found in Eastern martial arts. Consider the qualities of a Black Belt: highly trained, experienced, disciplined, controlled, and receptive. There are various Lean Six Sigma Belts explained below.

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The Lean Six Sigma Belts as a staircase: Yellow Belt half a day, Orange Belt one and a half days, Green Belt 6 days, Black Belt 15 days, Master Black Belt tailor-made

Lean Six Sigma Belts

Yellow Belt

Yellow Belt

Half a day

Employees with basic knowledge of Lean Six Sigma who have completed an introductory training in the methodology.

Orange Belt

Orange Belt

One and a half days

Employees who encounter Lean Six Sigma in their work and need to know the tools and techniques. As team members they work on improvement projects or make small improvements themselves. In the Orange Belt training they learn and practise the most used tools within DMAIC.

Green Belt

Green Belt

6 days

Department managers, project leaders and employees working on process improvement, as team members or as project leaders.

Green Belts learn to go through the DMAIC cycle with the tools and techniques that come with it: Lean tools, statistics and change management. A (Master) Black Belt guides them.

Black Belt

Black Belt

15 days

Project managers, consultants, programme managers, department managers and engineers who lead an improvement project or programme. They guide Green Belts during their projects and provide training. Black Belts have applied Lean Six Sigma in practice and know change management, policy deployment and data analysis.

Master Black Belt

Master Black Belt

Tailor-made

Programme manager, trainer, coach and advisor in Lean Six Sigma. A Master Black Belt coaches Black Belts and senior management, and makes sure improvements are in line with the strategy of the organisation, so a culture of continuous improvement grows.

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