Many concepts in Six Sigma need help in the application and require interactions between trainer-participant and participant-participant (role plays, Q&A sessions, simulations). Most importantly, for learning people should be able to relate to some past experiences of their own.

 

In a single program, we may have participants from 10 industries and 7 functional areas and 6 seniority levels. The key to faster and relevant learning for all is to ensure that we keep the grey cells keep working through interactive sessions. We create groups of participants who are from similar industry or functional areas so that they can do join exercises for common learning. The feedback from large majority of our participants is that they benefited immensely through the methodology which cannot be replicated through digital media. This is the reason why some people who have undergone online green belt course pay to attend our classroom green belt training.

 

We have found that Industry/Function specific teaming enhances learning experience by at least 50%

 

As mentioned above, Group Learning is considered as one of the best practices followed for learning. Immense learning comes from such activities and it helps in retention as well. These activities induce a sense of competition among the various teams and in order to present the best solution to the project, the best comes out of the participants.

The Leadership roles these days require a cross functional expertise and Group activities are a very effective way to acquire a preliminary understanding of the various domains... Once aware of the various functions, it becomes very convenient to develop synergies and eliminate wastage... For instance, a proper co-ordination between Finance and Production is a must to prevent stock-outs or inventory pile-ups...

 

All trainings and to an extent, the academic curriculum must give a lot of stress on cross-functional team exercises...