Green Belt Training

Green Belt Training is all completed online and at your own pace! The 'Go To Class' portions can be scheduled and reschedule to work around your schedule. You can find out more information about registration here: Green Belt eLearning (dps.mil)

Air Force Lean Six Sigma Facilitator (Green Belt).  Meets AFI38-401 eLearning course requirement for obtaining an Air Force Green Belt certification. Coursework takes <40 hours and there are four checkpoints with a Black Belt instructor that are hosted live and recorded for review.  Student will earn a USAF Certificate of Green Belt Training and 2.9 Continuing Education Units. A final exam must be passed at 80% or higher. At completion the trainee will be matched with a mentor to facilitate a certification project to improve a process in order to be granted Green Belt certification and a Special Experience Identifier (SEI) code.

What will Airmen learn?

Ready to do a Project?

Start with a Charter

Blocks to fill out:

Project:

• Title of your project

Champion

• The person who the process owner is responsible too.

  • Holds the process owner responsible for implementation and sustainment of approved changes.

  • provides resources to the team

  • Ensures Project Team understands its purpose and objective

  • Initaties and approves related opportunities revealed by the event.

  • Ensures project team delivers satisfactory implementation and sustainment plan.

  • Has enough authority to remove barriers to success

    • Works with external organizations to remove barriers to project success

  • Often, the champion is the process owner for a larger end-to-end process that includes the process being improved

Team Lead

• Individual leading the team on the process improvement issue

  • Usually the individual requesting the action or identified 

  • Coordinates Meetings

  • Lead Meeting discusussions

  • Maintain team focus

  • Maintains a healthy team environment

  • Keeps team energy alive

  • Schedules and prepares Steering Team updates

  • Learns LEAN tools from the facilitator

  • Helps team accomplish goals

  • Maintains regular communication with Steering Team/Champion

  • Leads team to completion of charter requirements

  • Communicates with steering team and process owner

  • Keeps team alternate-lead up-to-date on developments and issues

  • Acts as the spokesman of the team

  • Supports team decisions

  • Ensures action items are assigned with completion dates and that completion dates are met

  • Ensures communications from champion and process owner are presented to the team.

Process Owner 

• The one who can make decisions to change or modify the process.

  • Usually a flight commander/flight chief, NCOIC, squadron commander, etc 

  • This is the person who is responsible for solving the problem or fixing the process.

  • Authority to allocate resources and man-power

  • Commitment to change culture

  • Responsibility to ensure full implementation and sustainment

  • Gets proof that implementation and sustainment are accruing

  • Supports daily needs of the team

  • Stays up-to-date on team progress

  • Removes team barriers and escalates barriers to champion that are beyond their authority to resolve

  • Holds implementation team accountable for fulfilling charter requirements.

Mentor 

• Optional participant

  • If the facilitator is working on a project that exceeds their capability, whether for training/cert or due to level of complexity

Facilitator

• The CPI practitioner who assists the process owner through teaching and using CPI tools and through helping manage the team/group dynamics (Can also be the Process Owner)

• Focuses the team on charter goals, requirements and keeps team within boundaries of charter's scope

• Guides team until team lead is developed

• Develops team lead

• Understands team dynamics

• Acts as non-bias moderator

• Guides team and coaches' team through process as necessary

• Communicates good, bad and ugly issues with champion

• Works with team members individually and/or collectively on issues of team dynamics

• Does not own process or solutions created by the team

• Trains team on hard and soft tools as necessary to ensure team success

Team Members

• Bring an open mind to meetings and issue(s) discussed

• Committed to the cause of the team

• Supports the decisions and actions of the team

• Completes team tasking by due date and is prepared for team meetings

• Attends meetings

• Understands the charter

• Involved and innovative

• Identify Non-Value added processes to eliminate

• Clearly communicates team's purpose and actions

• Accept responsibility for:

  • Assignments from the team

  • Actions taken by the team

Clarify and Validate the Problem

• What is the problem that the project will resolve?

• What "pain points" will be addressed by the project - and how will addressing them improve performance and benefit Air Force operations?

• Who are the affected customers?

Project Goal

• What are the expected outcomes of this initiative?

• What is the specific measurable accomplishment that the project aims to address?

Impact Statement

• What are the expected benefits of project implementation, including financial (e.g., cost savings, cost avoidance) and non-financial (e.g., service improvement, compliance) projects? 

• What are the current conditions?

Project Scope

• What are the boundaries of the initiative? (e.g. start and end points of the process, part of the process that is being evaluated)

• What assumptions or constraints should govern the project team's focus?

• What are the anticipated project start and end dates?

Stakeholders

• What  stakeholders will be involved in (or impacted by) this project?

Remaining boxes are fairly self explanatory. If you have any questions or once the charter is complete just submit to your WPM.

(Currently: MSgt Helena Cox)

The A3 Process?

For certification you will want to be completing the A3 during the life of your project. This document will evolve as you work through each stage, and some stages may happen in simulation, just make sure you capture the data in each area as it applies. 

You can find a copy of the A3 and some instructions in the files here in teams.

Certification Requirements