Inside Quality Insider

  |  11/11/2009

Product News: Lean Six Sigma Training and Certification for Veterans

Two consulting firms team up to teach veterans critical skills for today’s market.

(Mountain Home Training and Consulting: Denver) -- Mountain Home Training and Consulting Inc. announces it has signed a teaming agreement with Playsmint, one of the industry’s leading veteran placement service providers, to offer transitioning veterans an opportunity to get the training and certification they need to compete in today’s very tough employment market. As part of this agreement, Playsmint will become Mountain Home’s newest continuous process improvement (CPI) training and certification affiliate.

This gives Playsmint the ability to offer Mountain Home’s lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Green Belt, and Black Belt certifications and business process reengineering (BPR) certification training to the veterans as part of the package of services they provide. Included in the agreement, Playsmint will also be able to provide Mountain Home training to veterans at significantly discounted prices.

These courses are designed to provide individuals at all levels of an organization, who are responsible for improving the quality and efficiency of its products or services, concepts and techniques of lean Six Sigma and BPR used by process improvement practitioners worldwide.

“The ideals our veterans learn from their military service make them valuable, but our training and certification makes them marketable,” says Mountain Home president and CEO, Derril Watts. “As a disabled-veteran-owned business, the idea of teaming with another veteran-owned business like Playsmint, to help other veterans make that critical shift from a military to a civilian career, was just too good of an opportunity to pass up.”

“The military devotes a lot of time and resources to making ordinary people into soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines,” says Stephen Freeman, president and CEO of Playsmint. “Shouldn’t the same effort be put into successfully transitioning these people back into civilian life after honorable service? This teaming agreement moves us firmly in that direction.”

Freeman, also a veteran, feels a sense of responsibility to his fellow veteran. “The tremendous weight our military men and women bear for all of us warrants action on our part,” explains Freeman.

About Playsmint

Playsmint is a leading provider in the veteran placement industry, specializing in military transition. Playsmint provides training for both the military veteran and the organizations that are looking to fill their ranks with military talent. Playsmint provides the veteran work force that is diverse, hardworking, highly skilled, dependable, and responsible with the tools to effectively compete in today’s competitive job market. Playsmint services include career coaching through Playsmint Coach, organizational training to understand and facilitate successful military transitions, direct placements, staffing solutions, and other business services that bring more veterans to the work force. For more information please contact Stephen Freeman at (832) 380-4838 or visit www.playsmint.com.

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