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Lean Six Sigma – Yellow Belt Workshop Day 1

07 January 2026 - 9:30 am • 07 January 2026 - 4:00 pm • IoM3 The Boilerhouse, Springfield business park, Caunt Rd, Grantham, NG31 7FZ

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Lean Six Sigma is a business improvement management system designed to help businesses improve their processes, their products, their quality, their service and their profitability. To do this Lean Six Sigma utilises a number of common-sense tools that have been developed and refined over the last 70 years into a structure that is used by extensively across the globe in every type of organisation.

Qualifications for Lean Six Sigma practitioners are provided in different coloured belts; yellow belt is intended for anyone that is directly involved in business improvement initiatives and provides a solid foundation of the knowledge required to effect positive change. Run over 2 days participants finish by completing an internationally accredited online multiple-choice exam with The Council for Six Sigma Certification.

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Business Lincolnshire

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Day 1 - You will learn

  • Lean Fundamentals – how to identify the 8 wastes of Lean thinking
  • Six Sigma Fundamentals – what is Six Sigma and why it drive performance improvement
  • Waste and Non-Value-Added Activity – erode profit you will learn how to identify, measure and plan to eliminate both
  • 5S – The most used Lean tool, reduces waste, reduces variation and improves productivity
  • Voice of the Customer – Understand what customers care about and making that your priority
  • Kaizen – the strive for continuous improvement, there is always room for improvement
  • Process Mapping and Value Stream Mapping – Map your processes to identify and action improvement
  • Flow and Pull – how to balance your work to be in step with customer demand and why it matters

The training team

Mike Epton

Mike Epton

Business Lincolnshire Manufacturing Support Programme

Trevor Durant

Trevor Durant

Business Lincolnshire Manufacturing Growth Adviser