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Certification Maintenance

Protect Your Investment

Sharpening the Saw

Certification programs with maintenance requirements are far more valuable than those without.

Protect your investment by tracking and reporting your activities at “sharpening the saw” to keep your skills current and effective.

Our certification maintenance program rewards you for accomplishments in 3 categories:

  • Continuing Education
  • Improvement Projects
  • Giving Back

For each certification, you need to build a total of 150 points every 3 years. You need at least 50 points in each of the 3 categories, with a maximum of 5 occurrences for each item.

certification maintenance

Certified Lean Practitioner

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Lean or Six Sigma – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Be the project manager for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Serve as a team member on a Lean project – 25 points for each project
  • Serve as the problem solver on a problem solving project – 25 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Lean project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Lean Expert

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Lean or Six Sigma – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Be the project manager for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Serve as a team member on a Lean project – 25 points for each project
  • Serve as the problem solver on a problem solving project – 25 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Lean project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Lean Master

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Lean or Six Sigma – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Serve as project champion for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Coach someone through a problem solving project – 50 points for each project
  • Be the project manager for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Lean project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Lean Champion

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Lean or Six Sigma – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Lead the annual “looking back” assessment of your Lean program – 50 points for each assessment
  • Provide annual update on your Lean program to entire organization – 50 points for each update
  • Serve as project champion for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Coach someone through a problem solving project – 50 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Six Sigma Green Belt

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Six Sigma or Lean – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Be the project manager for a Six Sigma project – 50 points for each project
  • Serve as a team member on a Six Sigma project – 25 points for each project
  • Serve as the problem solver on a problem solving project – 25 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Six Sigma project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Six Sigma or Lean – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Serve as project champion for a Six Sigma project – 50 points for each project
  • Coach someone through a problem solving project – 50 points for each project
  • Be the project manager for a Six Sigma project – 50 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Six Sigma project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Lean Apprentice

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Lean or Six Sigma – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Be the project manager for a Lean project – 50 points for each project
  • Serve as a team member on a Lean project – 25 points for each project
  • Serve as the problem solver on a problem solving project – 25 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Lean project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

Certified Six Sigma Yellow Belt

Continuing Education – 50 point minimum:

  • Take a class – 25 points for each class
  • Attend a conference – 25 points for each conference
  • Read or listen to a book – 15 points for each book
  • Attend a workshop – 10 points for each workshop
  • Tour an organization using Six Sigma or Lean – 10 points for each tour
  • Watch a webinar – 5 points for each webinar
  • Listen to a podcast – 5 points for each podcast

Improvement Projects – 50 point minimum:

  • Be the project manager for a Six Sigma project – 50 points for each project
  • Serve as a team member on a Six Sigma project – 25 points for each project
  • Serve as the problem solver on a problem solving project – 25 points for each project
  • Provide expert advice to a Six Sigma project team – 25 points for each project

Giving Back – 50 point minimum:

  • Teach a class – 50 points for each class
  • Write an article – 25 points for each article
  • Give a presentation – 25 points for each class
  • Conduct a tour – 25 points for each tour
  • Record a video – 25 points for each video
  • Record a podcast – 25 points for each podcast
  • Be a guest instructor – 25 points for each event

Submit Your Maintenance Application

More Coming

Our certification advisory board is working to enhance the information on this page and build in features to help you track your maintenance points.

Watch for announcements in the Transformance Communiqué.

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