BLACK BELT

The Path to becoming a Certified LEAN ALASKA Lean Six Sigma Black Belt: PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certificate course is designed to help master the combined concepts of Lean and Six Sigma, develop an in-depth understanding of the Six Sigma phases of the DMAIC, and how to maximize customer value while minimizing waste. This training course relies heavily on Lean concepts, advanced statistical analysis, and the management of team dynamics. - Achieve significant improvements in critical business processes. - Apply statistical and problem-solving tools to an improvement project brought to class on the first day. - Reduce process variation. - Eliminate waste and defects by applying lean and Six Sigma. - Collect, analyze, and quantify data that enable process improvements. - Learn how to execute the Six Sigma methodology. - Establish and define process capability. - Identify and eliminate dominant process variation sources. - Characterize and optimize processes by computing and applying statistical techniques. - Design, simulate, and execute designed experiments that depict validated improvement. - Learn how to plan and implement process control to hold project gains. DELIVERY Lean Alaska is currently offering Virtual Training through various online platforms that can be customized to better meet future student and organizations' needs and requirements. Currently, Microsoft Teams is the main platform being used. You will be notified with the appropriate links once it is determined which platform is chosen. With MS Teams, Lean Alaska must have your civilian email address, MS Teams will not allow Lean Alaska to invite .mil accounts unfortuantly. Using MS Teams as Lean Alaska's delivery method includes interactive learning, group discussion, and simulations to reinforce the training material. DURATION The Lean Alaska Black Belt Certificate is a 120-hour course content, not all of this will be OF LIVE, instructor-led instruction via MS Teams. This format consists of online reading, lectures, videos, workplace models, review, evaluation, and feedback. The student is expected to complete the required information before the next class meeting. Every Live-Virtual session is recorded to offer flexibility and comprehension of the material throughout the course. Army Ignited PHASES: Due to Army Ignited Policy changes (beginning on 11 Dec 2024, until further notice) all students who will be using Army CA Funds will be able to attend the Black Belt course, using only 1 Army Ignited Credential allotment. The Black Belt course for those individuals will be broken down into 2 PHASES and will require two years of funding ($2,000 per fiscal year to total $4,000). When registering please indicate with Phase you are attending. Each Phase is two weeks long. Phase 1 will also include mentorship and a project that will provide a cohesive step from Phase 1 to Phase 2 and bring necessary practical experience to help advance knowledge and career. ASSESSMENT There will be 5 scenario based questions each week of the course to total 20 questions overall. These questions help establish comprehension and practical application understanding of the material being taught for that week. You are required to obtain a minimum of 80% each week. If you do not, you will schedule a one-on-one meeting with the instructor to review and clarify areas that are unclear before retaking that week's assessment. Once you have successfully completed each of the 4 weeks assessments you will receive the Black Belt Certificate. Lean Alaska Black Belt Certificate is geared towards the management of Black belt level projects and to oversee the projects of Green belts in their organizations. The black belt course provided by Lean Alaska is the elite training for Lean Six Sigma quality management professionals. Lean Alaska’s Black belt training will validate your professional skill in handling complex projects and expertise in implementing all of the methodologies within our fused methodology. It will also prepare you to sit for the IASSC and ASQ Black Belt exams. For more information on IASSC and ASQ Certifications and exams please check out our Certification page. -There is NO Prerequisite to attending this Black Belt Course- FY2025 COURSE DATES All FY25 and FY26 BLACK BELT courses will meet 3 days of Live-Virtually of each meeting week, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays. The added flexibility will allow more added video content, and practical applications and simulations to be utilized. This will maximize learning practice, and experience for all of Lean Alaska's Black Belt students. JUNE2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 1200 to 1600 ALASKA TIME week 1: JUNE 24, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: JULY 1, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: JULY 22, 2025 week 4: JULY 29, 2025 JULY2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 0600 to 1000 ALASKA TIME week 1: JULY 8, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: JULY 22, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: JULY 29, 2025 week 4: AUG 12, 2025 AUG2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 1200 to 1600 ALASKA TIME week 1: AUG 12, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: SEPT 2, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: SEPT 9, 2025 week 4: SEPT 23, 2025 SEPT2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 0600 to 1000 ALASKA TIME week 1: SEPT 9, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: SEPT 23, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: SEPT 30, 2025 week 4: OCT 14, 2025 FINAL2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 1700 to 2100 ALASKA TIME week 1: SEPT 16, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: SEPT 30, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: OCT 7, 2025 week 4: OCT 14, 2025 KOREA2025-BLACK BELT: Starts @ 2300 to 0300 ALASKA TIME week 1: SEPT 23, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: SEPT 30, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited FY26 BLACK BELT CLASS SCHEDULE: BB1 (Black Belt): Starts @ 1200 to 1600 ALASKA TIME week 1: DEC 2, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: DEC 9, 2025 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: JAN 6, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: JAN 13, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB2 (Black Belt): Starts @ 0600 to 1000 ALASKA TIME week 1: JAN 27, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: FEB 3, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: FEB 17, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: FEB 24, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB3 (Black Belt): Starts @ 1700 to 2100 ALASKA TIME week 1: MAR 3, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: MAR 10, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: MAR 24, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: MAR 31, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB4 (Black Belt): Starts @ 1200 to 1600 ALASKA TIME week 1: APR 14, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: APR 21, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: MAY 5, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: MAY 12, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB5 (Black Belt): Starts @ 0600 to 1000 ALASKA TIME week 1: JUN 16, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: JUN 23, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: JUL 7, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: JUL 14, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB6 (Black Belt): Starts @ 1700 to 2100 ALASKA TIME week 1: AUG 4, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: AUG 11, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: AUG 25, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: SEPT 1, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited BB7 (Black Belt): Starts @ 1200 to 2100 ALASKA TIME week 1: SEPT 15, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 2: SEPT 22, 2026 -Phase 1 Army Ignited week 3: OCT 6, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited week 4: OCT 13, 2026 -Phase 2 Army Ignited *IASSC® is a registered trade mark of PeopleCert International Limited, used under permission of PeopleCert International Limited. 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