
Improvement Apprenticeships
Enhance your people, improve your performance and increase productivity with Improvement apprenticeships.
City Skills are helping businesses to enhance their people, improve performance and increase productivity with Improvement apprenticeships, an alternative to funding a six sigma cert. Delivered through first-class blended training, we offer bespoke training packages to ensure your business improvement, project or change management strategies are a success.

Improvement Apprenticeships vs a six sigma cert
Every organisation is different, so we tailor our Improvement Apprenticeship offering to suit. We work with a select panel of tutors. Ensuring the very highest standard of design to deliver exactly what your organisation needs. We work with you to find the perfect solution for your employees and your business.
We design improvement apprenticeships to align with your business needs. Enabling you to up-skill your teams, drive a culture of lean and high performance and create the next generation of team leaders, supervisors and managers with the top level management skills that allow the business to flourish and thrive.
Through the Improvement Apprenticeship Programmes, your teams will drive high standards of quality, reduce costs, manage supply chains, and avoid waste; giving your organisation a competitive edge and reducing bottom-line costs.
Benefits of Business Improvement Apprenticeships
- Ensure improvement projects are linked to the achievement of strategic organisational objectives
- Develop of internal capability to deliver process improvements on an ongoing and sustainable basis
- Apprentices will learn to select and use the appropriate Lean Six Sigma tools to reduce variation, defects, cycle times, lead times, waste and costs within their processes
- Develop a ‘Continuous Improvement Culture and employee behaviour towards supporting Lean Six Sigma
- Move from a Functional to a ‘Value Stream’ view of the organisation. Stakeholders work together collectively to remove waste from the ‘Value Stream’
- Ensure process improvements are sustained
- Develop permanent corrective actions’ for process failures
- Financial benefits including revenue increase, cost reductions and removal of wasted resources
Who can do an Improvement Apprenticeship?
An Improvement Practitioner Apprentice would suit anyone that has the responsibility to support change or project management or who needs to develop their lean and six sigma skills further.
Our City Skills tutors will guide their learner journey to develop more expert skills.
All apprentices must have the right to work in the UK and not have studied a similar level qualification.
We have developed a learning programme to give all employers within England, large or small, looking to hire a new apprentice or upskill an existing employee the option for individual or group training as part of a larger cohort all with the guarantee of consistent high-quality delivery and engagement.
An Improvement Leader Apprenticeship is best suited to someone with experience or someone already in a managerial role. It is perfect for those with a good understanding of your business and who has improvement or lean and six sigma experience under their belt.
Our City Skills tutors will guide their learner journey to develop more expert skills.
All apprentices must have the right to work in the UK and not have studied a similar level qualification.
We have developed a learning programme to give all employers within England, large or small, looking to hire a new apprentice or upskill an existing employee the option for individual or group training as part of a larger cohort all with the guarantee of consistent high-quality delivery and engagement.