With an emphasis on knowledge mastery,
master black belts are trained either as
instructors or as mentors.

Master Black Belt Training

* For six sigma instructors, mentors and trainers

Description

Master Black Belt Training prepares master instructors to teach six sigma, and prepares master mentors to effectively shepherd yellow belts, green belts and black belts through the completion of six sigma projects.

The training ensures an organization's own instructors/mentors achieve content mastery for the classes they will teach and/or support.

After achieving content mastery, master black belt candidates develop further as either stand-up instructors or expert project mentors.

The curriculum for the first phase of Master Black Belt Training is a core of modules that both instructors and mentors need to know, relative to their industry and operating environment.

For instructors. the second phase of training entails co-teaching and coaching related to delivery capability. For mentors, the second phase of training entails coaching related to providing technical leadership in driving and completing six sigma projects.

Outcomes

  • Ensures that staff designated to teach course material, and to mentor people through projects, are fully prepared and qualified.
  • Significantly reduces the cost of training by precluding the need for hiring outside master instructors.

Features

  • Training content is customized to meet the needs of individual participants in close cooperation with the client organization.
  • Training is delivered with a general bias towards Socratic learning: customized coverage of topics, weaknesses and needs of concern to each class participant.
  • Training is conducted by an experienced master trainer in the subject-area of focus and is highly personalized, with no more than five participants per service cycle.
  • Training is variably paced to meet the individualized needs of each master instructor candidate.