Here’s another Top 10 Six Sigma Black Belt list that I encourage you all to print and place by your desktop monitor.
1. Identify, enlist, and empower leaders for their Six Sigma effort
2. Develop and communicate a vision linked to business goals so that employees can know themselves what difference they can make.
3. Articulate and communicate the problem or opportunity to employees in a language they can understand
4. Scope and target Six Sigma efforts appropriately and with the right people – Don’t waste time doing complex financial analysis with someone who has no accounting background
5. Engage others by linking Sigma Lean vision to business strategy and company values
6. Ensure that technical, commercial, and human resources processes support the Six Sigma initiative
7. Use effective teaming skills – learn the team’s traits, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats (SWOT)
8. Apply appropriate technical and statistical tools – don’t use a yard stick to measure a mile, don’t use an odometer to measure the distance between your phone and your LCD monitor
9. Evaluate and communicate realistic progress against benchmarks
10. Create an environment that embraces change – keep everyone smiling
