Become a Lean Green Belt! Learn structured improvement, solve problems and secure results. Engage your team and create sustainable impact in your organization.
Dates and registrationContactThe Lean Green Belt training focuses on four essential pillars: Customer Value, Understanding, Improvement and Stabilization. Everything starts with Customer Value: within Lean , this is the driver for every optimization. You constantly learn to look from your customer's eyes, so that every change delivers real added value. To get started effectively, it is crucial to thoroughly understand the current situation. This ensures that your improvements fit perfectly. Next, you learn to tackle problems and improve processes in a structured way. Finally, and this is the core of Stabilizing, you will discover how to not only secure the results achieved, but also maintain them permanently.
In the section 'Customer Value' we dive into the five Lean principles, with a keen eye for customer value. You discover exactly what your customer experiences as valuable - and just as important: what they absolutely do not want. You will learn the crucial difference between value-creating and non-value-creating activities. The latter we call the 7 wastes, and herein lies often a huge, untapped improvement potential within your daily processes! By eliminating waste, you focus on what really counts. Because in Lean : don't improve what can, but what must!
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In the Understanding section, you lay the foundation for any successful improvement by mapping your team or department's current performance with razor-sharp clarity. You will learn how to measure this performance, how to make it factual and how to create a shared picture with your colleagues and managers. You'll also discover how to create an effective
board discussion and visualize performance. We will also discuss the power of a 'Gemba Walk': how to conduct it effectively and why it is so essential for really understanding your processes. Because a good insight into where you are now is the starting point for successful improvement!
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Within a Lean organization, we love problems! After all, they are the indicators that something needs to be optimized. You learn to recognize different types of problems, how to get to the root cause of them, and how to actually realize improvements. We do this by carrying out a concrete improvement project - the key to your Lean Green Belt certification!
Improvement is often quite difficult, let's face it! Jumping to a solution too quickly without understanding what is really going on? Skip the cause analysis because we think we already know the solution? Solving a problem that afterwards turned out to be just a fire-fighting exercise? Trial and error instead of lasting improvement? You must have experienced it before!
In the Lean Green Belt Belt, we help you learn new, effective improvement routines. Depending on the complexity and desired impact of your improvement, we provide you with various proven methods to structurally, and permanently, solve problems and achieve goals. Because don't forget: we are only really able to solve a problem when we understand what is going on and why.
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Do you recognize that unstable processes are the cause of disappointing results? In the 'Stabilize' component, we map out exactly how your processes are really performing. We visualize the way the work is organized, so you can immediately see where the obstacles and waste are and how you can effectively eliminate them. After all, unpredictability and unreliability towards the customer can be directly traced back to instability in your processes.
Even from a traditional process organization, as a team you will discover the direct impact of the various Lean methods on your processes and the performance resulting from them. Thus, you immediately apply the knowledge gained in the first three days in a concrete practical assignment. From observations and thorough analyses to targeted experiments: the result is a significant performance improvement with higher quality, delivery on schedule, optimal flexibility and maximum utilization of available capacity - the basis for stability and standardized work.
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After this training, you have the unique option to become certified as a Lean Green Belt. If you pass, you will receive the globally recognized Lean Green Belt certificate, issued by the prestigious Lean Global Network. You obtain this certificate by passing a theory test about your Lean on the one hand, and on the other hand by demonstrating through a practical assignment that you can independently improve processes using Lean techniques.
We advise you to start with an improvement project within your own team or department at the beginning of the training. This way we take your daily practice as a starting point and help you to apply Lean directly in your work. What problem do you want to solve, or what performance do you want to improve?
We would love to help you complete this training and your improvement project successfully! Experience shows that participants who are coached by one of our experiencedMaster) Black Belts complete their projects faster, with greater impact and a better result. This makes coaching a very valuable investment in yourself and in the success of your project.
Do you want to be certified as a Lean Green Belt? Then we advise you to also take a minimum of 6 hours of personal coaching. You will be assigned a (Master) Black Belt coach and together you will schedule 6 online coaching appointments, flexible at the times and milestones that are most appropriate for your improvement project.
The base price for this course is €2,500 and is fully inclusive:
Want to get your Lean Green Belt certification right away? Then we offer you the following complete packages:
Need additional coaching after your journey? You can easily do that with our flexible coaching strippenkaart. All amounts mentioned are excluding VAT.
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Radar Systems Team Leader at Thales
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Quality employee at the Municipality of Rotterdam
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Truus Stubenitsky
Project Controller at Danieli Corus
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Management Assistant at Danieli Corus
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Lean coach at Shoeby
Maxime de Lange
Site Manager at ISS Nederland
Yes, we work a lot with customized training programs for our clients (starting from 6 participants). You can read more about examples of customized programs on our website.
We can also provide all Lean belt training courses in-company specifically for your company. We would love to spar with you about your specific issue so feel free to contact us!
Lean is a way of improving processes. The goal is to help customers as well as possible at the lowest possible effort and cost. Of course, you are a customer yourself and you want to be helped as well as possible, whether in the hospital, in the supermarket or when ordering something online. With Lean you look at how you can deliver your service or product to your customer as smartly as possible, in the shortest possible time. When we talk about Lean, we often talk about the different Lean principles, Lean methods and Lean techniques with which you can improve processes and thus your work. For more information on what is Lean, read the full article here.
To participate in this program, you should already be familiar with various techniques for achieving basic stability and structured problem solving, at the level of the Lean Green Belt , so preferably you have completed a Lean Green Belt training or something similar. If you are in doubt whether the Lean Black Belt suits your current level and experience and educational background, please feel free to contact us!
If you just want to get acquainted with Lean, a kind of Lean introductory training, then we recommend taking the Lean Yellow Belt training . You will then know what Lean is, what the basic ideas are and what you could start doing with it.
If you want to get started with improvement projects and Lean methodologies in your own team, then the Lean Green Belt training is an appropriate course.
If you also want to implement improvement projects that are cross-team and involve multiple teams and start doing that in a more project-based manner as well, then the Lean Black Belt course is a good choice.
Have you already looked at our decision aid? If you still have questions or would like advice, please feel free to contact us!
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