Lean practices have been employed by organizations across a wide variety of industries in order to optimize processes and performance, with the focus on speed, efficiency and removing waste.
Lean Green Belts are specialists in executing Lean projects, often related to lead time reduction.
With the right combination of specialist expertise and structured Lean methodology, the Lean Green Belt is equipped to achieve significant improvements in performance and quality.
Certify your ability to:
- Understand current processes to know which steps are wasteful and which add value.
- Improve processes to reduce cycle time and costs, increase revenue and improve collaboration.
- Champion a Lean culture to sustain improved processes and build momentum for additional improvements in other areas of your organization.
Developed in partnership with the Lean Six Sigma Academy, our syllabus is based on the ‘Continuous Improvement Maturity Model’ (CIMM), a framework that guides an evolutionary staged approach for process improvement from an early stage.
Certification consists of an exam (theory) and practical assessment.
Lean Six Sigma Skill Sets
Lean Green Belt training and certification is underpinned by the Lean Six Sigma Academy (LSSA) Skill Sets, which are available to download from the LSSA website.
The Skill Sets determine what you are tested on in the exam and provide an outline of the requirements for the practical assessment.
In 2021, the Skill Sets were updated from version 2.4 to version 3.2 which has resulted in some minor changes to the Green Belt exam. If you have been studying against the requirements of v2.4 of the skill set, you will be able to book an exam based on this version until 31 March 2022. After this date, it will only be possible to order an exam based on version 3.2 of the LSSA skill sets.
Lean Green Belt
Certify your ability to enhance business processes and improve performance
Lean Green Belts are specialists in executing Lean projects. Training and certification are designed for managers, aspiring managers and other key personnel or subject matter experts involved in improving the performance of business processes.
- The general philosophy of Process Improvement.
- The role and responsibilities of Leadership in its efforts to coach and inspire improvement teams.
- Tools and techniques to visualize, analyse and improve the logistical flow of processes.
- The proper and organized work environment.
- Multiple choice format
- 40 questions
- 25 marks (63%) or more required to pass
- 120 minutes duration
- Open-book (a maximum of any two books is permitted during the exam + statistical tables booklet (14 page PDF). Exercise books are NOT permitted during the exam.)
- Calculators and minitab are permitted
- This step towards achieving the complete Lean Green Belt certificate involves the submission of a successful Lean Green Belt project at CIMM level-III or higher.
- The project must demonstrate a financial impact of €20,000 on an annual basis or another relevant CTQ (e.g. lead time) has substantially been improved.
- The project must follow the PDCA, DMAIC or DMADV roadmap. DMADV and DMAIC review templates are available from the LSSA website: https://www.lssa.eu/resources/
- The project should be signed off by the Champion to declare that the project has been carried out professionally and that objectives have been achieved and sustainable.
- The project must be submitted no later than three years after passing the Lean Green Belt theory exam.
