Innovating Executive Education in Six Sigma

Canopus Business Management Group has launched an innovative executive education based on a study conducted among participants of such programs in the past. The new program is first of its kind in India to provide post-training free mentoring support, training in free open-source softwares, etc., It expected to cover over 500 participants this year across India through this module.

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Chennai, Tamil Nadu, March 18, 2010 /India PRwire/ -- Six Sigma Education is no more a special skill. It is unimaginable that in today's corporate world, every employee is expected to play a role to improve his/her process. Gone are the days, when he/she was just responsible to produce the desired outputs. So process orientation and the ability to analyze problems and ensure they don't recur is a quality expected by every employer. Companies derive direct business benefits of 20% increase in margin, 15% increase in capacity and 20% reduction in capital from small improvements done by employees.

Thus companies nurture and develop skills such as a six sigma, lean and theory of constraints among their employees. Avenues available for employees to get educated in this field include on-job training, structured six sigma green belt training, on-line training program, one-to-one coaching, on-job projects, on-job coaching by a experienced six sigma master black belt, and so on.

Unfortunately not all of the above avenues deliver desired results. Class room training program is common among employees. As a result, it is also the most abused.

Spotting a need to provide interventions to employees in the six sigma education space, Canopus Business Management Group, an exclusive talent development entity for process has provided innovative six sigma education from time to time.

Canopus has launched its new six sigma green belt training and certification program today.

After surveying over 100 executives across industries, who have undergone Six Sigma Education, Canopus has decided to offer a 4 day training module that overcomes the key concerns expressed in the survey. key observations of the survey include schedule of training, lack of post- training guidance, expensive licensed software used in training that individuals cannot afford, lack of practical outlook to the theoretical concepts and inability to relate to the industry they come from.

Canopus module will be spread around weekend. In addition we provide free post-training mentoring for participants who execute projects, training will include open-source software and a choice of industry specific cases for manufacturing, BSFI and Telecom, thus making it the first of its kind in India said the Principal and founder of Canopus, Mr. Nilakanta Srinivasan

Being the first of its kind in India, about 500 executives from leading companies in manufacturing, hospitality, IT, BPO, banking and financial services are expected to sign up for the programme this year.

The training will be launched in all metros, starting with Chennai between 9th to 12th April this year.

Last year, Canopus launched an expert-led executive one-to-one coaching to CXOs, leaders & senior managers in the process management.

Six sigma education should enable the employee to link the concepts back at work and hence the success of any such training is measure by business results than mere participant feedback, Mr. Srinivasan said.