{"id":1818,"date":"2019-07-02T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=1818"},"modified":"2021-06-21T12:23:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:23:59","slug":"will-it-work-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/will-it-work-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Will It Work Here?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Agile Lean Six Sigma approach will rapidly answer this question. One-day Yellow Belt problem solving will get results where Green Belt and Black Belt training may not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/325064046?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201cLean Six Sigma for Hospitals\u201d and the QI Macros [software].<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI was out at the Lean Six Sigma World Conference in San Antonio there was a very interesting presentation about Yellow Belt trainings. What they found was that if they did it a certain way (which is the way I&#8217;ve been doing it for the last twenty years) that they got better results. Well, that&#8217;s kind of cool, right?<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThe big difference was they started out with data, figured out what problems needed to be solved, and then they got a team together and brought them through some training, and then got them right into improvement so that they could answer that question that everybody&#8217;s asking on the team (or the management team): \u201cWill it work here?\u201d Well, yes; if we analyze the data, get the team together, solve the problem, implement the solution\u2026 guess what? Everybody [says], \u201cOh, that&#8217;ll work here.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThis goes along with another thing I saw at the Lean Six Sigma conference that ASQ had down in Phoenix where they talked about \u201cminimally invasive training,\u201d so just a little bit of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/data-mining-analysis-excel\/data-mining-wizard\/\">data analysis<\/a>, you bring a team together that actually has something to work on, you give them a little bit of training, and then you throw them right into problem solving and root cause analysis and get them into implementation, and out of that comes improvement. It happens quickly, and this can be done.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI saw another improvement project last year by one of the health care companies down in Texas. They were trying to do Green Belt and Black Belt training and that wasn&#8217;t working, and so they started doing one day <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/Moneybelt\/\">Yellow Belt trainings<\/a> focused on improvements. All of a sudden that started getting lots of traction, and out of that they discovered who should be the Green Belts and out of the Green Belts they discovered who should be the Black Belts. This was Christus Health &#8211; and so they went all the way back to doing one day Yellow Belt trainings focused on getting results and having teams working on real problems.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201c That&#8217;s how you answer that question, \u201cWill it work here?\u201d As soon as the people figured out that it will and the management figures out it will, it will stick.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s my Improvement Insight for this week. Let&#8217;s go out and improve something.\u201c<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agile Lean Six Sigma approach will rapidly answer this question. One-day Yellow Belt problem solving will get results where Green Belt and Black Belt training may not. &ldquo;Hi, I&rsquo;m Jay Arthur, author of &ldquo;Lean Six Sigma for Hospitals&rdquo; and the QI Macros [software]. &ldquo;I was out at the Lean Six Sigma World Conference in San [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[320,290,3,7],"tags":[191,276,166,118,168,140,170,213],"class_list":["post-1818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agile-lean-six-sigma","category-improvement-insights","category-lean","category-six-sigma","tag-agile","tag-agile-lean-six-sigma","tag-lean","tag-lean-six-sigma","tag-qi-macros","tag-quality-improvement","tag-six-sigma","tag-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1818"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4819,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1818\/revisions\/4819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}