{"id":7179,"date":"2025-02-18T01:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/?p=7179"},"modified":"2025-04-24T14:03:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:03:23","slug":"would-you-rather-have-100-yellow-belts-or-2-3-gbs-or-bbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/lean-six-sigma-blog\/would-you-rather-have-100-yellow-belts-or-2-3-gbs-or-bbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You Rather Have 100 Yellow Belts or 2-3 GBs or BBs?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Most companies start their Six Sigma implementation by training a few Green and Black Belts. That works some of the time, but it&#8217;s the wrong way to go. Start with Yellow Belts. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/995090487?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\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m Jay Arthur, author of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lean-Six-Sigma-Hospitals-Improving\/dp\/1259641082\/\">Lean Six Sigma For Hospitals<\/a>\u201d and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/demo\/\">QI Macros [software]<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;You know, a lot of companies start up their [Quality Improvement program] and they go out and they train a Black Belt and a few Green Belts and try to get things going. Then like many companies, they discover that they&#8217;re not getting the results that they want. What might make more sense is the Agile approach I suggest in my book (which you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qimacros.com\/pdf\/Agile-Process-Innovation.pdf\">download from our website<\/a>) where you train Yellow Belts in a day and get results.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;As you do that, you can\u2026 discover the people in those rooms, in those sinks, that really have the aptitude, the desire, the mental whatever-it-is to be problem solvers and use data to do it. Those people should go on into Green Belt and Black Belt training.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;I hear far too much from Consultants who say \u201cPeople are \u2018one and done,\u2019 they get trained, they do one project and they stop doing it.\u201d I hate to tell you this: that&#8217;s a total waste of money and time. That&#8217;s just bad, right? So why don&#8217;t we just train a hundred Yellow Belts, and out of that get a handful of Green Belts and Black Belts who really have the skills, the ability and the mental aptitude to go get that done.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;So that&#8217;s my Improvement Insight: Let&#8217;s go out and improve how we implement Six Sigma, how we pick who we train, so that we can get better and better results all the time, and so it&#8217;s not just one and done. It&#8217;s \u201cI&#8217;ve been trained and I&#8217;m still changing things all the time.\u201d I&#8217;ve seen a few Black Belts and Master Black Belts who are just still out there cutting a wide swath through all the defects, mistakes, errors, waste, rework, lost profit and patient harm. You want more of those people.<\/p>\r\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s go out and improve something this week.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most companies start their Six Sigma implementation by training a few Green and Black Belts. 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