Lean Six Sigma
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
A practical two-day foundations course for professionals who participate in process improvement work and need a working command of Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, waste, variation, and basic improvement tools.
- Format
- Live virtual, in-person, or private on-site
- Duration
- 2 days
- Level
- Introductory
- From
- $995.00
About this course
Course overview
See waste. Understand variation. Improve the work.
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt is a practical two-day foundations course for professionals who support process improvement, operations, service delivery, or cross-functional problem solving. Participants learn how Lean and Six Sigma fit together, how to use the DMAIC structure, how to map and measure work, and how to contribute meaningfully to improvement initiatives.
The course is built for practical team-level application. Learners leave with a Yellow Belt charter, current-state process map, measurement plan, root-cause analysis, improvement experiment, and control checklist they can adapt to a real process.
Learning outcomes
What you'll learn
Every module is tied to an outcome you can bring back to your team the next day.
- Explain Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, customer value, waste, variation, flow, and the Yellow Belt role
- Map a process and identify handoffs, delays, defects, rework, bottlenecks, and sources of variation
- Support Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, and Control activities with practical team-level tools
- Use root-cause tools, basic data displays, process measures, and prioritization methods
- Test small changes, select countermeasures, and avoid shifting problems downstream
- Use controls, standard work, visual management, and simple metrics to sustain improvement
- Document 16.0 PMI education PDUs: 11 Ways of Working, 2 Power Skills, and 3 Business Acumen
Audience
Who it's for
- Team members who participate in Lean Six Sigma or process improvement projects
- Operations, service, administrative, project, and support professionals responsible for improving work
- Frontline supervisors, analysts, coordinators, and process owners
- Organizations building a common improvement vocabulary before Green Belt or larger transformation work
Course structure
Syllabus
A structured path from core concepts to applied practice.
Day 1 — Foundations, Process Thinking, and Define/Measure
- Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, customer value, defects, waste, variation, and flow
- Yellow Belt roles and boundaries: participant, data collector, process expert, and improvement team member
- Voice of the customer, CTQs, problem statements, goals, scope, and stakeholders
- Project charters, SIPOC, high-level process context, and team alignment
- Process maps, swimlanes, handoffs, queues, rework loops, and bottlenecks
- Data types, operational definitions, sampling basics, and visual analysis
Day 2 — Analyze, Improve, Control, and Yellow Belt Application
- Cause-and-effect diagrams, 5 Whys, affinity grouping, and impact/effort prioritization
- Distinguishing symptoms, causes, constraints, and special-cause variation
- Countermeasure selection, mistake-proofing, waste removal, standard work, and flow improvement
- Small tests of change, pilot planning, risk review, and stakeholder communication
- Control plans, visual management, owner handoff, and before/after measures
- Yellow Belt assessment/project expectations and a 30-day improvement action plan
Public cohorts
Upcoming sessions
Secure your seat in a live, instructor-led cohort. Private team deliveries available on request.
No public cohorts on the calendar yet.
We run this course as a private team cohort on demand, or you can be the first to know when the next public date drops.
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