Online training can be very effective for learning especially with the flexibility to schedule self-directed work. However, when a group of employees are going through Lean Six Sigma training, how can a sense of community be maintained and how do we help keep learners on task? In this introductory webinar, we'll discuss a Do-It-Yourself approach to coordinating a group of Lean Six Sigma learners in an organization and build a cohort of learners by having internal meetings, creating a schedule, homework, activities, and project discussion.

1. 9/10/2017
Presented by Tracy O’Rourke
Managing Partner & Executive Advisor
at GoLeanSixSigma.com
How to Use Group Reviews
to Ensure Your Team’s
Green Belt Training Is Successful

2. Our Expert: Tracy
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• Managing Partner & Executive
Advisor at GoLeanSixSigma.com
• 20 years of industry experience
• Began Process Improvement
career at GE as a Black Belt
• UCSD & SDSU Instructor:
Lean Enterprise and
Lean Six Sigma courses
• MBA from Pepperdine University
• BA in English Literature from
San Francisco State University

3. How to Interact
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• Answer polls

4. Let’s Interact!
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7. How to Conduct Group Reviews to Ensure
Your Team’s Green Belt Training Is Successful
•Why group sessions enhance learning
•How to coordinate a group of Lean Six Sigma
learners to complete online training
•Ground rules for group sessions to optimize
student learning
•Activities for each group session to enhance the
online learning
Today’s Agenda
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8. •Anyone who is
Green Belt trained and
exercises process
improvement
•Responsible for initiating
Lean Six Sigma projects
within their primary
function
•Works closely with a
Black Belt
Green Belt
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9. Online Training
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•Self-directed online
modules
• More popular
• More accessible
•Help create more
bandwidth for
internal resources

10. Group Reviews
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Group review:
• Supplemental meetings/working sessions that Green Belts attend beyond the
self-directed online training modules to enhance learning and encourage real
world application
Size recommendations:
• No more than 12

11. Group Review Purpose
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•Turn Green Belt Certification into a shared
experience
•Encourage real world application and
discussion
•Provide built-in support to discuss project
progress
•Provide a mechanism to keep the training front
and center
•Build the Continuous Improvement community
within the organization

12. Important Planning Questions to Ask
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•What defines Green Belt Certification for your
company?
• Project requirement
• Panel Review
• Shared projects allowed
•What is required after Green Belt Certification?
• Two projects a year, every year
• Participation in the continuous improvement
community
• Mentoring new Green Belt peers

13. Poll #1:
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Have you participated in
hybrid training before?
A. Yes, online self-directed and with virtual instructor (ILT)
B. Yes, online self-directed mixed face-to-face training
C. Yes, online self-directed mixed with interactive class
boardrooms
D. No, I have not participated in hybrid training before

14. Determine Schedule
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Training & Exams
• Identify dates for when each of the phase modules
should be completed
Project Work
• Determine when to start Green Belt projects
• Screen Project Charter
• Provide time to complete projects
Group Sessions
• Identify dates for group sessions throughout the phases
Group Session Agendas
• Build detailed agendas for students to use

15. Build Agendas for Each Session
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Consider the following:
•Activities
•Purpose/benefit
•Feasibility/accessibility
•Time availability
•Who would participate as a speaker or
facilitator?

16. Options for Group Review Sessions
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1. Do icebreakers
2. Invite one of your organization’s executives a for
a brief visit
3. Display a presentation from a Green Belt that
has already completed their certification
4. Join a tour to see process improvement in
action
5. View webinars, videos, or podcast assignments

17. Heavy Polar Bears (Icebreakers)
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Icebreakers:
• Enhance team
productivity
• Enhance student
connections
• Help build
connections to the
community of
continuous
improvement

18. Option 1: Icebreaker Sample
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Share An Interes ng Personal Fact
About You

19. Option 2: Executive Visit
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Purpose:
• Allow Green Belts to
hear the vision of
Process Improvement in
the organization
• Stress the importance
of Green Belts in the
organization
• Engage leaders in Q&A
with Green Belt
candidates
Involving an Executive Leader can be
effective at demonstrating the organization’s
commitment to the effort

20. Option 3: Certified Green Belt Visit
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Purpose:
• Hear project charters
and provide some
feedback
• Share a 30 minute
presentation of
their project
• Engage in Q&A
about project successes
and challenges
Involving a Certified Green Belt helps the
Learners and keeps the Certified Green
Belt engaged with mentoring others
GoLeanSixSigma.com has FREE recorded project presentations
goleansixsigma.com/success

21. Option 4: Tour
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Purpose:
• See how other
organizations are
implementing process
improvement techniques
• Get a sense of an
organization’s culture
and how employees
interact and what is
allowed and promoted
• Engage in Q&A and share
best practices

22. Option 5: Webinars, Videos, Podcasts
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Webinars Podcasts
Success Stories Blogs

23. Poll #2:
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Which ones have you been exposed to as
part of a training program?
A. Executive visit during training
B. Peer presentation from someone that went through
the program
C. Tour of a “Model” implementation
D. Supplemental webinars, videos, podcasts
E. A combination of some or all

24. Create Agenda for Each Session
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•Determine what needs to be covered
•Share the agendas in advance
•Start every group review with an icebreaker
•Share, interact and learn
•Establish ground rules
•Provide peer-to-peer coaching feedback in the
plus/delta format

25. Pre-Work prior to Group Session Sample
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Pre-work outline
could include:
• Training modules
to complete
• Templates to download
• Videos to watch
• Blogs to read

26. Agenda for Session 1 Sample
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27. Creating Standard Work
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• Create Standard Work for interested
Green Belt candidates
• Create Standard Work for a wave of Green Belt training
• Create a checklist to coordinate reserving a room space,
needed supplies and technology equipment
• Create an introduction e-mail for the new
Green Belt candidates
• E-mail reminders for what is to be completed by the
next group review
• Use the Lean Six Sigma Training Rollout Kit,
standard welcome e-mail and introduction to the Green
Belt program

28. Post Training
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• Provide public
recognition
of completion
• Continue to
contribute to the
community
• Complete two
Green Belt projects
each year
• Mentor Green Belt
peers
Authentic recognition helps make
the effort worthwhile!

29. Today We Covered
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How to Conduct Group Reviews to Ensure
Your Team’s Green Belt Training Is Successful
•Why group sessions enhance learning
•How to coordinate a group of Lean Six Sigma
learners to complete online training
•Ground rules for group sessions to optimize
student learning
•Activities for each group session to enhance the
online learning

30. Q&A
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31. Getting Started
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starting some more training!
• Yellow Belt Training is FREE at
GoLeanSixSigma.com
• Green Belt Training &
Certification
• Black Belt Training & Certification
• Lean Training & Certification

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34. Q&A
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35. Thank you for joining us!
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