What is required to become a Black Belt?
• The organization ensures that the candidate possesses the personal skills, leadership prowess, and experience to lead project teams. • The candidate attends an intensive four- or five-week training program; the four week-long sessions are spaced about a month apart. The candidate must pass a written examination at the end of each session and after all four sessions have been completed. • The candidate leads, from inception to conclusion, a successful Six Sigma project that has been authorized and validated by the organization, and submits a report to the examiner. This report must demonstrate the candidate’s mastery of the tools and methods of Six Sigma. Any tools not required by the project itself can be demonstrated by means of separate case studies conducted and reported by the candidate.
