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Course Overview- BLI Lean Six Sigma Black Belt - Blended Learning

• Online Course
  
  • Summary and Learning Objectives
  • Course Structure and Requirements
  • Course Sequence
  • How to Navigate and Use Resources
• Online Classroom
• Project Coaching One-on-One
• Workshop
• Certification

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Summary and Objectives

This BLI Lean Six Sigma Black Belt course is comprised of multiple separate sessions which follow the Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control (DMAIC) project phase structure. Each session is a collection of related lessons, and includes an interactive quiz at the end of the session. Individual lessons also include simulations and interactive practice exercises. All course material is available online, and sessions may be started and stopped at any point - content is delivered on-demand according to your schedule. The course is instructor supported if you need help.

By completing this course of study, you will gain a solid general knowledge of the theory, composition and implementation of a Six Sigma initiative. You will also become proficient in all of the basic analytical tools necessary to define, measure, analyze, improve, and control Six Sigma improvement projects, with the exception of design and analysis of experiments. You will learn team leadership and project management skills. In short, as a Black Belt you will master the skills necessary to lead a complex process improvement project that produces bottom-line results.

BLI Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Learning Objectives

Course Structure and Requirements

MoreSteam courses provide content-on-demand to offer the highest degree of student flexibility. You can set your own schedule and progress at your own speed, terminating and re-entering sessions whenever you wish.

All course sessions use a mix of multimedia to present material, including text, synchronized audio slide shows, diagrams, charts, simulations, and audio lectures. Links to outside research resources are provided to explore chosen subjects in greater detail.

Course access is provided for 365 days beginning at the time of enrollment.

As you work through the course you will be asked to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in four ways:

• Interactive Practice Excercises will be presented throughout each session so that you can try your new skills and get immediate feedback.
• Supplemental Exercises will be presented at the end of every session to practice new concepts. Supplemental Exercises are self-graded and may be shared in the Virtual Classroom Discussion area.
• Quizzes will be conducted at the end of every session. Quizzes are interactive, and provide immediate feedback to close the learning loop.
• Black Belt Project: We strongly suggest that a meaningful project should accompany this coursework. The learning experience will be enhanced significantly if concepts and tools are practiced on a real-world project as the course is completed. Successful project work is also required for any certification process.

Course Sequence

The course is presented in a logical sequence to follow the Six Sigma DMAIC improvement process. We believe that you will learn most efficiently by following the sequence presented. In particular, the first session presents an overview of Six Sigma, which will be helpful to put the remaining sessions in proper context. However, the sessions are modular, and we encourage you to explore the material. You are free to move forward and backward throughout the course. You can skip ahead or go back and review material that you already covered. The course map feature allows you to move point to point, from anywhere to anywhere. The course map status column will tell you which pages you have not visited.

How to Navigate and Use Resources

Navigation aids are located in the Navigation Frame to the left of the text screen, and can be activated by clicking on the icon or text.

• Return to the MoreSteam University home page by clicking on the icon in the upper-left corner of the navigation frame.

• Click on Course Overview in the navigation box to return to this page to review project requirements or other general information.
• Consult the dynamic Course Map to identify your current location or to move around the course. The Course Map bookmarking feature will take you back to the point where you last terminated your session.
• Join a Virtual Classroom Discussion through the Discuss link. The Virtual Classroom Discussion is a threaded discussion forum among all current students, with input from the instructor.
• Access the MoreSteam Toolbox through the navigation box to research process improvement tools.
• Outside Research Resources provides links to useful websites and recommended books.
• The Instructor link provides a shortcut to send an email to the course instructor.
• Access a notepad to record your class ntoes by clicking on the Notes link in the navigation box. Notes will be indexed by your current course location for easy reference and can be printed in summary form.
• The Account Info link provides a vehicle to update your email address, phone number, location, and shows the number of days of access remaining.
• The Quiz Results link provides a summary of quiz results by session, including detail on any skipped or missed questions.
• The StatMaster link opens an interactive wizard to guide statistical analysis.
• From any point in the course you can open a D-M-A-I-C flowchart by clicking on the Six Sigma icon in the lower-left corner of the navigation bar.

• The Help icon in the lower-left corner of the navigation bar opens an Internal Search Function and a Glossary of Terms.

• Synchronized audio slide shows will display without use of a separate media player, but you must enable your browser to read Java (Tools/Internet Options/Advanced/Microsoft VM/Check All Boxes). When you see a slide show icon displayed in the right margin of the course, click on the icon to load the media.

Online Classroom

Live online meetings to re-enforce the materials covered in the interactive e-learning. Our MBBs conduct a 2-hour session every week to go over the material in each phase and provide the opportunity for students to ask questions on concepts they are not clear on and to discuss the methodology's application to real life projects.

In addition to the 2-hour session, a 1-hour study hall is conducted to provide students with the opportunity to focus completely on working through content, solving problems with classmates, or discussing projects with MBBs. This kind of just-in-time training relieves students of some of the pressure associated with self-paced programs and helps develop their time management skills and avoid work-time distractions.

Project Coaching One-on-One

Our MBBs Schedule regular meetings with students as they work through projects. At the end of each of the D.M.A.I.C Phase our MBB conducts a 1-hour tollgate review going over the deliverables and discussing the project progress in details, the tools, and their application to the student's specific project.

Workshop

There is no substitute for Face-to-Face interaction. Our workshops are designed so that our students use their valuable time on learning how to apply the learned tools in a risk free environment to a continuous improvement project providing a more effective learning experience. This goal is achieved thru project simulation that runs for 3 days and a 2-day interactive discussion on the advanced tools that are commonly used by Black Belts.

The simulation is facilitated by one of our MBBs using an online multi-player game that offers a rich, risk-free project experience where choices to collect data or implement improvement actions all bear a cost in terms of time and money. Multiple decision paths create variability in results, so students must apply their Lean Six Sigma knowledge to make critical, data-driven decisions.

Certification

To earn Black Belt Certification through BLI, you must:

1. Complete MoreSteam's online Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Course.
2. Attend the 5-day Face-to-Face simulation workshop (optional) and pass a test of 100 questions conducted online for the duration of 6 hours. The test should be completed within 6 months of attending the workshop.
3. Complete a successful Six Sigma improvement project. The project should be completed within six months of course completion and must yield improvement in a performance metric that is important to the organization's mission. The project must meet established criteria which you can find at the following link:
   • Black Belt Certification Project Criterea