Six Sigma Team Leadership


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Target Audience
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Overview/Description
By addressing customer needs, streamlining processes, minimizing variance, and addressing poor quality and inefficiency, Six Sigma® can encourage a more profitable and sustainable business. The development and leadership of an effective team is critical if these outcomes are to be achieved. An effective Six Sigma team comprises the right people using their skills in collaboration with each other to address the needs of the customer and the project. This course provides potential team leaders with strategies for selecting the right team members and assigning roles within the team. When the team has been formed, the role of team leader changes to that of a facilitator, leader, and motivator. This course provides you with the techniques and skills required to build a team that can deliver your Six Sigma project. Six Sigma is a registered Trademark of Motorola Corporation, and all rights, title, and interest in Six Sigma belongs to Motorola.

Target Audience
Candidates for Black Belt certification; managers/executives overseeing personnel involved in the implementation of Six Sigma in their organization; consultants involved in implementing a Six Sigma proposal; and organizations implementing a Six Sigma project

Expected Duration (hours)
3.0

Lesson Objectives

Team Selection and Initiation

  • recognize the importance of selecting and initiating effective teams.
  • match characteristics of effective Six Sigma team members to corresponding examples.
  • match team member roles with descriptions of their responsibilities.
  • identify roles based on examples of the responsibilities of the team members for a given team.
  • match actions taken to initiate effective teamwork with examples.
  • Building an Effective Team

  • recognize the importance of building effective teams.
  • match the stages of team development with descriptions.
  • determine what stage of team development has been reached for a given team.
  • facilitate teamwork in a given situation.
  • empower team members in a given situation.
  • Course Number:
    OPER0173