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Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher Course

If it has been a while since you used your certification, this course is for you. Acuity Institute’s Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher Course is designed to reacquaint previously certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belts with the essential tools used when leading Lean Six Sigma DMAIC projects. This comprehensive program includes 6 months of online access to 30 microlearnings focused on the key DMAIC deliverable and concepts and our Lean Six Sigma Black Belt project simulation. In addition, students receive a copy of Acuity Institute’s Lean Six Sigma toolkit and full version of Acuity Institute’s Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course eBook.

Credits:

  • 3 CEUs
  • 30 PDUs

This course includes:

Prerequisites required

Key outcomes

  • Apply the Lean Six Sigma and the DMAIC methodology to a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt project
  • Apply methods learned in the DMAIC process to business issues
  • Apply statistical analysis to determine the relationship between key inputs and process outputs
  • Characterize the equation y = f(x)
  • Navigate statistical analysis software (SigmaXL or Minitab)

Course description

The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher course has been designed to reacquaint participants on the Lean Six Sigma fundamentals and its application and is intended for previously certified Black Belts looking to recertify and/or return to executing Lean Six Sigma project. Students are trained and tested on their understanding and ability to apply the tools and techniques of all elements of the Lean Six Sigma DMAIC methodology.

Acuity Institute’s courses are conducted online and use a multi-media format that includes audio from experts, examples of successful performance improvement, interactive simulations and quizzes, and the most current and robust tools and techniques available. This is a “self-paced” online course and can be accessed at any time—and—anywhere, which provides the most flexibility in completing the course. On average, students complete the course in 30 hours (average completion time, actual time may vary).

Upon completion, students will be able to move seamlessly from the training environment back into the workplace and begin leading Lean Six Sigma projects. We recommend this course to previously certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt that have not been leading projects and apply the related tools and are looking to refresh these skills.

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Your Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Refresher course package also includes:

  • A simulated Lean Six Sigma Project — a requirement of your course completion
  • A full version of SigmaXL — statistical analysis software with a lifetime license
  • Our Lean Six Sigma Toolkit — an entire set of tools and templates used throughout the DMAIC process — which are yours to keep and use forever
  • Our Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course eBook — a downloadable reference book of the course, yours to keep and use forever

Lessons and quizzes

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Certification requirements

To achieve your Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification, you must

  1. Complete the Online Lessons and Quizzes
  2. Complete the Simulated Project Deliverables and Tollgate Reviews
  3. Successfully pass the Exam.

Students will have two attempts to successfully pass the exam (80% or higher). The exam is open-book and administered online, with a maximum of 4 hours to complete. Students may use any reference materials to complete the exam — including training manuals, project materials, etc.

Here's what learners had to say about this course

Rob Shanfeld
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

This course was fantastic! I had a few weeks free between consulting projects, and was glad to find this course as it allowed me to go at my own pace, so I could sprint through a lot of material on my schedule. Lots of information, lots of flexibility, and above all, the staff at Acuity were extremely responsive and helpful. They went above and beyond helping to clarify topics in the course and helping me log the hours as PDU’s through the Project Management Institute…Super kudos to Stephanie for top notch customer service!

Salman Yasin
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

I had the pleasure to recently complete my Lean Six Sigma Green Belt (LSSGB) certification from Acuity Institute. The course material is developed in easy to understand concepts, and how they can be applied in the real world to achieve business and organizational benefits.

 

This course has helped me to further enhance my leadership skills, problem solving skills as well as analyzing and improving business processes. The course provides in depth understanding of the DMAIC (Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control) road map and has taught me how to collect and analyze performance data, identify inefficiencies and problems, pinpoint root causes, and institute new protocols to greatly improve processes. The course covers Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and helps to develop skills in leading a team through the process of change. The course has a practical and applied focus.

The team of Acuity Institute is greatly helpful in helping the learners to understand concepts and willing to help candidates to help them succeed, I would highly recommend the Institute and this course to anyone who is looking to do Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.

Rivoarilala Rakotondramaro
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

Complete course…right balance of theory and practical part. It can be used immediately even if you are in the beginning of the course and you get your certification at the same time your project is done. It gives you a large time of one year to complete your course. I recommend this especially to those like me have constraints in their job’s time schedule but want to learn anyway.

 

Tue Truong
Certified Acuity Institute Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt course was really well done. It provided all of the necessary tools and instructions for me to understand and apply learned concepts into real world situations. The pace of course is good and does not consume a lot of time. Overall, this was a positive experience and has changed my way of analyzing a problem.

Simulated Projects

At Acuity Institute, we recognize that not every individual has the opportunity to complete an actual project while completing training; therefore, we have created real world simulated projects that takes students from the beginning to the end of a problem and solution using the methodology trained in the course. The simulated project helps to build the student’s understanding of the concepts taught in training and provides practical application of the tools and methodology. Students complete the course better prepared to apply what they have learned in the real world.

The simulation is based on a hypothetical company that faces many of the same problems companies are dealing with today. Students complete challenging exercises and tollgate weviews which build on previously learned tools and concepts taught in training. When complete, students have a significant perspective on what true business improvement means and a tangible “project story” that they can utilize throughout their process improvement journey.

There is no comparison for these simulations in the marketplace today. No other provider offers a more comprehensive project simulation such as ours which includes numerous project deliverables, challenging analysis, and project tollgate reviews.

Toolkits

For many of Acuity’s courses, we have assembled a Toolkit, which contains a complete, user-friendly set of the templates included in the course. The toolkit assists practitioners in keeping focused on their project work and not creating “templates”. For ease of use, the templates can be downloaded directly to your computer and are yours to keep and utilize in future projects. The templates have been developed in common formats (MS Word, MS Excel or MS PowerPoint).

SigmaXL Statistical Software

Project leaders will find that data is an important part of Lean Six Sigma projects and statistical analysis software is an indispensable tool at the Black Belt level. Acuity Institute is one of the few Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification organizations who include both the licensed software and detailed instructions for using statistical analysis software in their Lean Six Sigma certification program.

Acuity Institute provides its Black Belts and Green Belts with a full version of SigmaXL statistical analysis software (a perpetual license, which means it is yours to keep), that is a $299 value on its own. SigmaXL is a leading provider of user-friendly Microsoft Excel Add-ins for statistical and graphical analysis. It is powerful but easy to use software that will enable students the ability to apply statistical and data analysis techniques taught in the Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and Green Belt Programs.

If your organization currently uses Minitab statistical software, instructions for this software are also included for each exercise. If you require a Minitab license, please contact us to inquire about cost and details on obtaining a license for this software option.