Six Sigma Green Belt

A Six Sigma Green Belt is defined as an employee who is trained in a subset of Six Sigma tools that fills a Six Sigma role on a part-time basis. In addition to their normal duties, Six Sigma Green Belt spend a portion of their time assisting Black Belts with complex improvement projects or independently leading teams under the mentorship of a Black Belt.

Six Sigma Green Belt Training course is designed to enhance technical problem solving skills in line managers. The Six Sigma Green Belt serves as a specially trained team member within his or her function- specific area of the organization. This focus allows the Six Sigma Green Belt to work on small, carefully defined Six Sigma projects, requiring less than a Black Belt’s full-time commitment to Six Sigma throughout the business. Six Sigma Green Belt Training provides participants with enhanced problem-solving skills, with an emphasis on the DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control) model.

The Six Sigma Green Belt has two primary tasks: first, to help successfully deploy Six Sigma techniques, and second, to lead small-scale improvement projects within their respective areas. As a support population, Six Sigma Green Belt can do much of the legwork in gathering data and executing experiments in support of a Black Belt project. As managers, they can significantly increase the Black Belt’s effectiveness. The class of Green Belts going through training is called a “wave” in Six Sigma vernacular.

Six Sigma Green Belt Training is a hands-on program designed for those team members who will actually implement the projects identified as improvement opportunities. Common outcomes of Six Sigma implementation efforts include:

• Reduced defects
• Higher customer satisfaction
• Increased market share
• Quicker time to market for new products
• Improved financial performance

Why Six Sigma Green Belt so important?

·         They have been characterized by some as being the "players" on the team.

·         They execute and implement the tools and practices of the Six Sigma initiatives.

·         They are the "front-line problem-solvers" in the organization.

Six Sigma Green Belt candidates can be employees at virtually all levels of the organization. They are not, however, usually in full-time process improvement positions. The designation Six Sigma Green Belt refers to people who have mastered the basic skills and are assigned to Six Sigma projects as needed. Six Sigma Green Belt are usually led by the Black Belts to apply the right tools at the right time to make process improvements to relatively difficult problems. Sometimes, however, they lead their own teams to exploit the opportunities of "low-hanging fruit" through data collection and analysis and process mapping. The Green Belt training emphasizes a structured problem-solving methodology for addressing business improvement projects by using intermediate quality tools within that methodology.