By profession, I’m a management consultant with expertise in problem-solving and business process improvement through six sigma and have more than 13 years of domain experience. Also, being a professional trainer for six sigma courses, I delivered training on Lean Six Sigma Green Belt and Black Belt to participants across the globe. I also have the merit of writing blogs on Quality management and project management topics, which are available through on-online platforms for knowledge repositories.
Before joining the Great Learning course, I was working as an associate consultant with a focus on assessing and providing consultation to Indian Manufacturing companies. To date, I have worked in manufacturing setups only without any exposure to service and IT industries.
The biggest professional challenge was related to my background as a non-IT professional who didn’t have any practical knowledge of coding. I have been away from programming since the time I completed my B. Tech degree. With this apprehension, I had lots of doubts in mind, such as how would I learn to cope up with coding constraints, would I be able to do justice to my time and cost investment for this course, and how would I stand out amongst my batch mates with sound technical knowledge from core IT and software field.
But my program manager shared with me some instances and statistics related to people with the same background who could combat these challenges with ease through their well-structured program modules. Later after the study of a couple of initial weeks, I realized her words and examples unfolding as true in front of me. The course is designed to keep all these possible facts in mind. If you have a desire and dedicated mindset to learn new subjects like me, this course definitely makes it possible for you irrespective of you depriving prior subject knowledge.
Great Learning course modules and contents are oriented to equip anyone with the required theoretical as well practical understanding of the subject. Moreover, the classroom program delivered by professors and industry professionals with sound subject knowledge is an add-on to the participant’s knowledge. All queries are handled by the mentors in real-time, leaving no doubts on the corner.
However, due to the pandemic, we faced an unprecedented hurdle of being part of the classroom teaching method during the course and were required to proceed with an online format to complete the program. Initially, my mates had an apprehension regarding the quality of teaching as desired through classroom format. But eventually, Great Learning organized the online classrooms so effectively through interactive lectures, each lecture’s recordings for future reference that we couldn’t realize a very substantial difference in terms of our learning experience.
Finally, we could complete our PGP course successfully irrespective of going through the nation-wide one of the biggest traumas of the pandemic and hence reserved us as being the early entrants in this domain of AI.
The learning sessions, unlike any other institute, at Great Learning are delivered by very experienced professors and industry experts. This blend is advantageous to the learners to obtain a sound hold of a subject from theory as well as practical points of view. Additionally, webinars are conducted at regular intervals to share best industry practices, current updates on advances in the domain, and real use cases via industry veterans. This is a bonus to improvise our knowledge and insights about complex topics. I would like to definitely apprise that Great Learning has always kept the quality of each session on top of their program priorities.
The Great Learning team and program manager have always tried to ensure that the quality of any session should never be compromised at any cost.
The role of the mentor is very critical for the success of a program. They are always approachable at times of need and make sure to address all our queries. Equally, I would like to appreciate the peer learning through my mates during the course. With knowledge and experience shared by my mates, who came from varied backgrounds, experiences, and domains, I could learn the best possible way.
ML and AI skills helped me develop a strong data analytics outlook in drawing business conclusions, making critical decisions, and adding value to my existing knowledge of Six Sigma. ML and AI are the future of Six Sigma thinking, and hence, having both these skills would keep you unbeatable in future dynamics.
I would strongly suggest individuals prepare themselves as future-ready by acquiring tomorrow’s sought-after knowledge of analytics. The field of analytics is emerging in India and has a very high potential to be one of the skills in the highest demand with the benefit of better off packages. Great Learning is a great choice for the prospects to obtain this desired profile and be the one amongst the highly sought-after professionals today.
