An Open Letter to Aspiring Lean Six Sigma Belts
My name is Thomas Pyzdek. I started my career in the quality field in 1967 as a Quality Technician in a can factory. I loved it then, and I still love it today. If you choose to join my profession then you are embarking on an exciting career. Your work will be honorable; you will help people and organizations become better at what they do. The pursuit of excellence is a win for you, your employer, customers, and society as a whole. By creating more value with fewer resources you even help the planet. And the financial rewards you will receive are nothing to sneeze at either. Based on the December 2011 ASQ salary survey, people who are certified Six Sigma Black Belts earn $102K per year, versus $85K for non-certified survey respondents, a difference of over $16,500 per year. That exceeds the value of many college degrees.
Of course, employers are willing to pay this difference because a Black Belt is worth it to them. A typical Black Belt will deliver $1 million per year in improvements. To accomplish this they must learn many things which make it possible for them to successfully complete improvement projects. Over the years I have coached Belts on thousands of successful projects. I am also called in to help organizations when their Six Sigma projects get “stuck.” By comparing successful projects and unsuccessful projects I determined the root causes of failure and figured out a unique way to avoid it. I developed an entirely new approach to executing the Six Sigma “Define-Measure-Analyze-Improve-Control” (DMAIC) cycle. My approach partitions DMAIC into a detailed series of logical interconnected steps, making it far more likely that projects will be successful. All Pyzdek Institute training is organized using this framework, so our graduates are confident that they can avoid the traps and pitfalls that ensnare so many other Lean Six Sigma Belts.
Although the cost of my training is competitive, it isn’t the cheapest on the market. I have been tempted to try to match my cheap competitors prices, but they offer training at a fraction of what it costs me just to provide my students with software licenses. And they promise to make you a certified belt in a fraction of the time I believe is necessary to learn what you need to know. Many will even certify you with a simulated pretend project, or with no project at all. I could compete with them, but only by rushing you through the training, or by giving you less than you need to be fully trained and qualified. As someone committed to excellence, I refuse to make compromises that sacrifice the quality of your training. After all, what difference is the initial cost of training compared to the enhanced lifetime earnings you’ll receive from it?
Imagine this, you get brand X training and list your it on your resume. One day you answer the phone and on the other end is a Master Black Belt (let’s make it a “he” for simplicity.) Chances are, like most Lean Six Sigma professionals, he has my Six Sigma Handbook on his bookshelf. After all, it has been the standard textbook in the field for 13 years. But you got your training elsewhere. The Master Black Belt asks where. He’s never heard of it. The quality of training offered on the Internet is uneven, to put it kindly. The Master Black Belt must now determine what you did—and didn’t—learn. He starts asking questions: What tools, statistical and otherwise, did you use and why? We use Minitab here, what software did you learn during your training? Tell me about your certification project. How did you engage your sponsor? What process did you use to select and recruit team members? What about your tollgate reviews? Etc.
If you graduate from The Pyzdek Institute you will be ready when that call comes. The author of your training is the author of the Master Black Belt’s textbook, so you have instant credibility. Your training provider and curriculum are accredited by the International Association for Six Sigma Certification (IASSC,) the only accrediting organization focused on Lean Six Sigma. You have completed a project that you presented to me in a live online meeting, so you’ll be comfortable discussing it with the Master Black Belt. You will be intimately familiar with a new, more effective approach to deploying DMAIC, something even the Master Black Belt doesn’t know about because it’s not yet taught anywhere other than in our training. You will have used the de facto standard software for Lean Six Sigma, Minitab, on dozens of practice problems and on your project. The Master Black Belt will know that you can make an immediate contribution to his organization’s success. Given the choice of candidates, whom do you think will get the job?
So I encourage you to join those of us committed to the pursuit of excellence. Of course, I hope that you will choose The Pyzdek Institute to help you achieve your goals. Best wishes for success!
Sincerely,
Thomas Pyzdek, Author of The Six Sigma Handbook
The Pyzdek Institute offers online Six Sigma and Lean Six Sigma training and certification by Thomas Pyzdek, author of The Six Sigma Handbook. Since 1967 Tom has trained thousands and his work is recognized around the world.
“Mr. Pyzdek simplifies the most technical and difficult subjects in quality.”The International Who’s Who in Quality.
“Students who took all or part of their class online performed better, on average, than those taking the same course through traditional face-to-face instruction.” Source: US Department of Education
The Pyzdek Institute is an Accredited Training Organization for International Association for Six Sigma Certification (IASSC) Lean Six Sigma exams.
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