Reducing the Training Burden: Making Yellow Belts with Green Belts
As 1 of 1 employees responsible for our local Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) program, expanding awareness of and involvement in the program can be a challenge. In fact, it is even a bit more challenging because 50% of my position is devoted to other project work. Even providing training can be difficult. If I'm out of the office for several days to deliver training, then both the CPI program and my other job duties suffer. We recently took advantage of the fact that the local cadre of Green Belts were eager to exercise their knowledge of lean six sigma principles to offer a Yellow Belt course. The standard Yellow Belt curriculum that we use is two full days of instruction and is led by a Black Belt. Our team team altered the training schedule so that the course could be offered in a three half-day format. I served as the Black Belt lead instructor, with three Green Belts sharing the instructional duties. The re-worked schedule and the abundance of instructors worked won