How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer ETC Awards Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and ETC Awards Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ETC Awards Limited.

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01What it is

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These are the units ETC Awards Limited registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ETC Awards Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. ETC Awards Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Real unit · ETC Awards Limited
This unit provides learners with an in-depth understanding of Lean Six Sigma philosophy, tools, and techniques to lead complex projects and deployments. You'll learn to apply Lean Six Sigma methods, evaluate project effectiveness, and communicate results to senior stakeholders.

What you'll be able to do

  • Articulate a thorough understanding of the philosophy of Lean Six Sigma
  • Articulate a thorough understanding of the tools and techniques of Lean Six Sigma
  • Understand how to lead complex Lean Six Sigma projects
  • Understand how to lead strategic Lean Six Sigma projects
  • Understand how to feedback Lean/Sigma project results to senior stakeholders
  • Understand how to lead a Lean Six Sigma deployment within an organisation
  • Demonstrate the ability to train others in Lean Six Sigma principles
  • Demonstrate the ability to train others in Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques, including non-normal data analysis
  • Understand how to coach Green Belts to complete successful Lean Six Sigma Projects
  • Understand how to coach Black Belts to complete successful Lean Six Sigma Projects
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03Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 258 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Six Sigma Master Black Belt

This work can lead to senior operations roles such as Chief Operations Officer, or into wider transformation leadership across an organisation.

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ETC Awards Limited rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach Rather than work through “Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt” in the abstract, bring me the piece of it you are dealing with this week.
You I have got the write-up due Friday and I have not started it.
The Coach Then that is the lesson. Tell me what it has to say, and we will get the shape of it down before we worry about the words.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring the real thing Apply

    “Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt” is taught against the work in front of you rather than a worked example. You bring what you are doing this week and it becomes the practice.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt, one of this qualification's own units.

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit provides learners with an in-depth understanding of Lean Six Sigma philosophy, tools, and techniques to lead complex projects and deployments. Learners will develop skills to apply Lean Six Sigma methods, evaluate project effectiveness, and communicate results to senior stakeholders.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

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