Lean Six Sigma is a management methodology that aims to increase quality, performance and customer satisfaction with lower costs. Its two main focusses are the systematic elimination of waste from every process in the company and only keeping activities that are of value to the customer. Although Lean Six Sigma was created in Toyota, Motorola and GE, its methodology is commonly used in the service sector as well. Throughout our practical courses, you will understand what a Lean way of working looks like and what Lean thinking is all about as you will look for innovative solutions for your real business case study. After completing the course, you will receive an internationally recognized certification that confirms your skills in Lean Six Sigma and enhances your managerial competencies.
If you want to start the digital transformation in your company, you need to first map and optimise the processes. And that is exactly where Lean Six Sigma can help you.
Find smart solutions that make things easier, faster, cheaper and of higher value. Learn to lead innovative projects.
Understand customer needs and tailor the processes to bring them real value.
Black Belts are typically programme managers, innovation leads, trainers, coaches, some top managers and project managers of more demanding projects.
Green Belts are typically project managers, workstream leaders and team members of more challenging projects. Typically 5–10% of the employees.
Yellow Belts are project teams members and company general population. Typically 20% or more of the employees.
The White Belt is the introductory level of the internationally recognised Lean Six Sigma certification. It is the perfect first step in your new career journey.
As part of this half-day online course, you will be given a basic overview of Lean methodology and find out how to improve business processes and how to run innovation projects in your company.
The course is suitable for all those who want to learn more about Lean methodology and who want to learn how to use basic Lean methods in their work.
Upon completing the course you will get get an international White Belt certificate that proves you have an understanding of the Lean basics.
Date: 30 October 2024
Time: 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Price: Free of charge
Language: English
Tutor: Ivan Řehák
The Yellow-Belt course is a two-day interactive course that will introduce you to the basic features and benefits of Lean Six Sigma methodology and will guide you through the different phases of the DMAIC process – Define, Measure, Analyse, Improve, and Control.
The course is suitable for project team members and for all those who want to learn more about the basic principles and benefits of the Lean Six Sigma methodology in an interactive and effective way.
Upon completing this course, you will receive a Yellow Belt certificate.
The Green Belt is a six-day interactive course linked to the basic Yellow-Belt course. The programme will allow you to gain deeper theoretical and practical skills in Lean Six Sigma. This training is held in the form of sessions separated by a few weeks. In between these sessions, you will work individually on your project and share your practical experience during the training sessions.
The course is suitable for people from across industries and will be appreciated especially by project managers and project team members who work on more challenging projects.
After attending the course, presenting your project at the end of the course, and taking the final test, you will receive a Green Belt certificate.
For those of you who would like to have a Green Belt level but have not yet got the Yellow-Belt certificate, we have prepared a special offer. Now you have the opportunity to take the Yellow Belt in a shortened one-day course compared to the classic two-day training and to continue the Green Belt immediately. Upon successful completion of the Yellow & Green-Belt training, you will receive certificates for both levels.
It is necessary to attend the whole seven-day Yellow & Green-Belt programme (the one-day version of Yellow Belt cannot be attended separately). To get the Yellow Belt certificate, you have to attend the course, for the Green Belt certificate you have to attend the course, present a standalone project and pass the final test.
The Black Belt is a ten-day interactive course that provides a sophisticated integration of Lean techniques into Six-Sigma methodology, combining two progressive management approaches into one strong business strategy. The content of the training is continuously adapted to meet the current requirements and needs of the manufacturing sector, administration and services. Our Black Belt course is very practical oriented. We will provide you with skills and methods that we teach our consultants ourselves and that we actually use on our clients' projects.
The course is suitable for project managers addressing the company's major problems, middle and top management of companies and all of those who want to lead the research teams using the DMAIC methodology. The Black Belt certification is valued by programme managers, top executives/managers, or leaders of innovative projects. Completing this level of certification not only develops technical skills but also enhances communication and leadership abilities, contributing to the improvement and development of managerial skills.
Basic knowledge: Customer Voice, 8 Waste Types, SIPOC, Kano Model, 5S, Ishikawa Diagram, Process Mapping, OEE Calculation, Process Flow.
Participants must demonstrate Lean Six Sigma Green Belt qualification prior to participation. If necessary, we can organise a two-day Green Belt refresher to repeat basic concepts and methods before the Black Belt.
Why to apply for Black Belt course:
After attending the course, presenting your project at the end of the course, and taking the final test, you will receive a Black Belt certificate.
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I chose this training with a high expectation that it would systematise my previous knowledge and form awareness. The lecturer's style and the training material captivated me. As an operational leader, one of the most important things is learning the lean approach, which we must not only learn, but also practice, develop and use on a daily basis.
This training led me on this path of "continuous improvement" and keeps me on it, as I am constantly drawing on the knowledge I gained at that time. I look back on the methods I learned several times and start projects with the help of what I have learned even to this day. I am grateful to be a part of this training with PwC and look forward to taking it to the next level with Black Belt.
Csilla Csulák
Head of Financial and Business Operations
Yellow-Belt courses will introduce you to the Lean way of thinking and to the basic methods of Lean Six Sigma. They are designed specifically for team members working on innovative projects.
Green-Belt courses are designed for future project managers of innovative projects. You will learn to deliver an innovative project from A to Z – from searching for opportunities, setting KPIs, collecting and evaluating data, implementing improvements up to team management and change management within the company and evaluating the benefits of the project. You will also get an overview of digital transformation methods and tools.
Black-Belt courses are designed for project managers who are responsible for larger projects or for the digital transformation in a company, for managers at all levels and for all those who devote themselves to process innovation on a full-time basis. The course focusses mainly on managerial skills related to process innovation, deeper understanding of data, management of larger implementations and an evaluation of financial and non-financial benefits for the company.
Yellow-Belt courses are attended by employees from across the company. Green-Belt courses are usually attended by managers at all levels, project managers, future project managers, as well as junior employees who plan to get involved in innovation projects. Also, people who already have experience with innovative projects and want to deepen their knowledge, apply to attend the Black-Belt courses.
Our participants come from both large international companies and small and medium-sized enterprises. Most participants come from non-production areas. The courses are also often attended by start-up and freelance consultants and project managers.
Yes. If you sign up for both levels at the same time, you will get a better price and you will save your time because in this case the Yellow Belt is shortened to one day. But don't worry, you will not lose any knowledge (even though the course is shorter).
You have to attend at least 80% of all sessions to complete the course. For Green-Belt certification, it is necessary to pass a test and to present a project from your company. For Black Belt, in addition to the attendance (80%) and the final test, you need to prove that you have at least one year of experience in managing innovation projects. In addition to that, you have to demonstrate that you have led a project that has resulted in a quantified financial benefit for the company. You have one year after the end of the course to deliver the documentation that proves that these criteria have been met.
No. The price of all courses includes passing the exam directly at PwC and issuing an internationally recognised certificate.
No. Lean Six Sigma certificates from PwC are lifelong and do not have to be renewed.
You can resit the exam twice. In very exceptional cases, when the participants fail even after the second attempt, it is possible to purchase additional attempts.
You do not have to deliver a project for the Yellow-Belt course. During the Green-Belt course, you work on a project in your company and our consultants help you with it. At the end of the course, you present your project, and it is not necessary to implement and evaluate all the proposed changes from the project before you finish the course.
In case of the Black-Belt course, you work on your project during the course and use the help of our consultants. To obtain certification, the project needs to be implemented and its results quantified and quantified. You have one year after the end of the course to implement and evaluate the project.
There is a maximum 15 participants. The usual size of the group is 10-12 participants.
Yes. You can sign up for open courses where you will cooperate with participants from other companies, and you will have the opportunity to expand your professional contacts and exchange know-how with professionals from various business fields.
Yes. We often run tailor-made courses for individual companies. We can conduct the course on the premises of PwC or on the premises of your company. In case you want to involve colleagues from other countries and limit traveling abroad, we can also organise an online course for you.
All courses are available in either an online or face-to-face format, both in Czech and English. Black-Belt courses are held only in English; however, in case of tailor-made courses, it is possible to organise them in Czech as well.
The main advantage of the online course is that you can participate in this course from anywhere, and you can even invite your colleagues from other countries to join the course without the need to travel. It's not only a lecture session; even in an online course, you cooperate most of the time in a team, you try out different methods and work on case studies or work directly on a project under the guidance of a lecturer.
If you prefer a face-to-face course (instead of an online course), this option is definitely also available.
The Yellow-Belt course contains two training days, the Green Belt six days and the Black belt 10 days. For open courses, the days are always in two-day blocks (Thursday-Friday) with an interval of 2-3 weeks. With the online course, the course always takes place one day a week, for example, Green Belt takes place every Wednesday for six weeks. In the case of private courses at your company, we will completely adapt to your time schedule.
Studying with the PwC Academy will provide you with an internationally recognized Lean Six Sigma certification that does not need to be renewed. Experienced lecturers will guide you through practical courses where you will solve real business problems and you will also get project templates used by professionals. All this will ensure you not only professional knowledge, but also the ability to apply it in practice.
They are not. Although we mention some production principles, 95% of course participants come from non-production areas (shared services, finance, IT, telecommunications, etc.
No. Our Lean Six Sigma courses are highly practical. We pass the skills and methods on to you that we teach our consultants and that we actually use on our clients' projects. During a Green-Belt course, our goal is to teach you how to understand data and perform basic analysis in Excel so that you can make decisions based on data.
We use the tools available to participants; there is no need to purchase additional software licenses. To map the process, participants can use, for example, Visio, Lucidchart, Diagrams.net or Excel or Powerpoint (Excel for data analysis). It is possible to try basic versions of other tools, such as Celonis for process mining, or PowerAutomate, UIPath community edition and others.
We do not work with Minitab in our courses. Minitab is specialised software used mainly in the area of production quality. A single-user license costs thousands of euros and its use in the non-production area is very limited. We will teach you how to perform all the necessary data analyses in Excel. During a Black-Belt course, those interested can try data analysis in Python.
Date | Course | CPD points | Language | Place | Price (excl. VAT) | Registration |
9, 15, 23 & 30 October 2024 6 & 13 November 2024 11 December 2024 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
Yellow & Green Belt | 49 | ENG | Online | 37,900 CZK | Register |
30 October 2024 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. |
White Belt | 3 | ENG | Online | Free of charge | Register |
9 & 10 January 2025 6 & 7 February 2025 6 & 7 March 2025 3, 4 & 24 April 2025 2 May 2025 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. |
Black Belt | 70 | ENG | PwC/Online | 54,900 CZK | Register |
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