Lean Six Sigma White Belt
See the waste. Speak the language. Start the journey.
The doorway into Lean Six Sigma. In a fortnight you learn to see ordinary work the way an improvement professional sees it — as a process with waste, variation and value hidden in plain sight — and you leave with your first one-page improvement story, the Mini-A3.
Duration
≈ 2 weeks
Effort
Foundational
Level
Awareness
Prereq
None — open to all
Languages
EN / FR
Credential
ECLEE LSSWB
Who it's for
Open to everyone. Students choosing a career direction, new hires on their first day, frontline and office staff, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants the vocabulary and mindset of continuous improvement before committing to a full project belt.
What you'll master
Explain what Lean Six Sigma is — and why quality, flow and reliability decide whether good people succeed inside a system.
Recognise the eight wastes (TIMWOODS) in any workplace, from a factory line to an inbox.
See work as a process, with suppliers, inputs, outputs and customers.
Read the DMAIC cycle at a glance and know what each phase is for.
Tell the difference between variation and a defect, and why both matter.
Produce a Mini-A3 — a single page that tells a real improvement story from problem to result.
The curriculum
| Foundations of improvement | Why quality, safety and flow matter; the cost of doing nothing. |
| Value & the customer | Value-added vs. non-value-added work, seen from the customer’s side. |
| Process thinking | SIPOC at a glance; turning ‘what we do’ into a visible process. |
| The eight wastes | TIMWOODS — spotting transport, waiting, over-processing and the rest. |
| Variation & defects | Why consistent processes beat heroic effort. |
| 5S & the visual workplace | Order and visual clarity as the first improvement anyone can make. |
| Mini-A3 capstone | Your first improvement story on a single page. |
You'll walk away with
A completed Mini-A3 improvement story
A structured workplace observation log
Assessment
An auto-graded concept quiz (pass ≥ 70%) plus your submitted Mini-A3 and observation log. The certificate is issued digitally on completion.
Credential
ECLEE Lean Six Sigma White Belt (LSSWB) — internationally recognised, and the formal prerequisite for the Yellow Belt.
Next step
Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt
