Free Course - The Top 10 Topics on the CQE Exam

HI, MY NAME IS ANDY ROBERTSON!

AND BECOMING A CQE WAS THE BEST THING I EVER DID TO GROW MY CAREER

When I started in Quality many years ago, I had no idea what I was doing. I felt insecure and unproductive because I didn’t know have the skills, knowledge and information to solve problems, manage projects and make high quality decisions.

I had a lot of potential, but I wasn’t sure how to unlock that potential and become the best Quality Engineering I could, and that’s when I found out about the CQE Certification.

My reputation grew as I learned the skills and tools that I needed to solve problems, lead teams, apply statistical tools and use risk-based thinking within the bigger picture of the Quality Management System. Best of all, my career and my income grew as I learned these skills! Oh, and I’ve since passed the CQE Exam three times.

And my story isn’t unique. ASQ does a survey every year of Quality Engineers and has consistently found that Certified Quality Engineers make on average $10,000 more a year than their non-certified peers.

Which makes perfect sense. The better you are at solving problems, or improving processes, the more valuable you are to your organization, which naturally leads to a higher salary.

This is why I created Become a CQE in 6 Months, so that I could give you the tools you need to grow your own career through CQE Certification!

COURSE INFORMATION

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN THE COURSE

The Top 10 Topics Course was built with busy professionals like yourself in mind. With this course you don’t have to be a 15-year quality engineer to be successful with this course. If you’re looking for a comprehensive, well-designed course to help you at each step of the way, this course is for you.

• Practice Exams that are both Spaced and Mixed!!!! When I designing this course, I knew I had to include these 3 scientifically proven study techniques to maximize learning and memory. With every lecture comes a practice exam that also contains questions from previous quizzes so you get that MIXED PRACTICE along with that SPACED PRACTICE to maximize your learning!

• Small daily chunks of study material! I wanted to create lectures that fit your busy lifestyle, so I constrained myself to a daily lecture that requires only 30 minutes to complete. This is broken down into a 15 minutes video and a 15-question practice exam, and I’ve set up the entire process to email you a new lecture each day, so that you can create a daily study habit, and be as prepared as possible on exam day!

• Quick and Easy Learning with Daily Video Lessons. Video is my favorite medium to teach. It speeds up the learning process as more information can be conveyed visually than if you were to simply read content. Also, video allows me really engage you in the learning process!

• Downloadable PDFs [To Study on the Go]. The daily lectures, and practice quizzes are all downloadable, so that you can print them off and study on the go. Also, at the end of each chapter is a final practice exam that has additional questions to help you prepare for the exam.

• Work at your own pace. There are 10 lectures covering the most important lectures in the CQE Body of Knowledge. How fast you move through the course is completely up to you.

WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

HARD WORKING, BUSY PROFESSIONALS LOOKING TO GROW THEIR CAREER

This course is designed for busy professional who are looking to grow their skills, knowledge and career through CQE Certification.

I’m a growth-oriented individual, and if you’re reading this, you are likely a growth junky like me. You enjoy learning and growing, and want to open up new career opportunities, and grow your income. You’re not afraid of working hard, and putting in the effort it takes to achieve a difficult goal.

But you’re also extremely busy, with work, family, friends and life.

So I specifically designed this course with you, the busy professional in mind. The course only requires 30 minutes a day, and takes advantage of all of the scientifically proven study techniques to maximize your time spent studying.

That way the course fits into your busy lifestyle while still delivering the career growth and learning that you want.

WHO THE COURSE IS NOT FOR

People looking for a magic bullet or some magic formula that will automatically get you certified. That doesn't exist. This is not a quick fix course.

While I’ve designed this course to be as easy as possible, nothing awesome comes easy.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.– Colin Powell

While the course will require effort, I’ve taken all of the preparation out of it, to save you time. Because time literally is money. What all awesome endeavors require is hard work and being open to learning from failure.

All REAL growth is hard. It requires effort, focus and perseverance.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought. - Napoleon Hill

No one experiences overnight success, but with daily effort, and thought, you can grow yourself and your career!

THIS COURSE WAS CREATED WITH NON-ENGINEERS IN MIND

Becoming a CQE does not require that you start out with an engineering degree itself. Truth be told, those of you who are engineers will have a leg up on some of the more complex statistics.

However, I created the statistics material under the assumption that you’re NOT already an engineer!

If you’re ready to grow, join the online course and get certified in 6 months.

HOW THE COURSE IS DESIGNED

THE 5-PART WINNING STRATEGY TO GET CERTIFIED

When I designed this course, I wanted to create something new, and break away from the traditional self-study method.

You know how the traditional self-study method works. You buy a book, which you don’t read (I honestly get it, you’re super busy!).

Then, a month before the exam you start cramming like crazy.

Maybe you pass the exam, maybe you don't, I can’t say for sure.

What I do know for sure is - you didn’t actually learn anything.

This means you won’t grow personally or professionally, which is the whole darn reason you signed up for the exam! This is the biggest downfall of the traditional self-study method.

When I created this course, I wanted to address the problem of cramming, but I also wanted to incorporate all of the latest best-practices in the world of adult education.

News flash, adults learn differently than kids. Adults don’t learn very well when you just hand them a book and ask them to read.

There’s been a lot of research in the area of cognitive science about the most effective teaching strategies which I’ve incorporated into the design of the course and include:

#1 – CREATING A DAILY STUDY HABIT TO BUILD LONG TERM MEMORY

#2 – FOCUSING ON ACTIVE LEARNING OVER PASSIVE LEARNING

#3 – EATING THE BIG FROG FIRST (STATISTICS)

#4 – USING SPACED REPETITION TO IMPROVE LONG TERM MEMORY

#5 – MENTORSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

Each of these 5 strategic areas are explained below.

If you’re ready to grow, join the online course and get certified in 6 months.

THE DAILY STUDY HABIT FOR SUCCESS

A STRUCTURED, DAILY STUDY ROUTINE TO PASS THE CQE EXAM

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going – Jim Ryun

When you first sign up for the CQE exam, you’re gunna be pumped. Suuuuper motivated. But let’s be honest. That initial burst of motivation is going to fade, and it’s not going to be enough to pass the CQE Exam.

Long term success only comes through daily habits. Small daily wins that add up to a big win.

This course was intentionally designed to help busy professionals like yourself create a daily study habit that will lead you to success. Each and every facet of the course, from its length to the daily quizzes, was carefully planned to serve that goal.

This focus on a daily study habit was inspired by John Maxwell who said:

“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily.The secret of success is found in your daily habits.” – John Maxwell

So how do we get started with this daily study habit, and what the heck do we study???

Well, let’s steal some more advice from another wise man, Mark Twain who said:

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”

The CQE Exam is the epitome of a “complex overwhelming task”.

There are 7 major “pillars”, with 43 included topics, and many more sub-topics, most of which are complex and deep just by themselves. It can be overwhelming to think about.

I’ve spent the past 8 years breaking this complex overwhelming task down into small, digestible chunks of study material to help you create a daily study habit and pass the CQE Exam!

You can see the course curriculum below which has been broken down into small chunks that will be emailed to you daily, along with a practice quiz to help you consistently learn and grow.

Creating this study habit is what’s going to change your career.

John Dryden taught us this about habits: “We first make our habits, and then our habits make us."

A habit of daily learning is one of the best habits you can develop that will continuously lead to personal and professional growth.

The truth of this statement is echoed by Aristotle who said:

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”

Acing the CQE Exam, and ACTUALLY learning anything requires that you create a daily study habit.

The biggest mistake you can make when preparing for the CQE exam is to put off studying to the last minute (because you don’t have a daily study habit) and then CRAM for the exam.

Cramming is the opposite of a daily learning habit; and the problem with cramming is that you don’t actually learn anything. This means you won’t grow personally or professionally, which is the whole darn reason you signed up for the exam!

If you’re a growth junky like me, and you want to create a daily study habit and get certified in the next 6 months, sign up for the course and let’s get started!

GROWTH THROUGH ACTIVE LEARNING

HELPING YOU LEARN FASTER, AND REMEMBER WHAT YOU’VE LEARNED

Over the last 8 years I’ve helped many people pass the CQE exam, and I always ask them the same question after they pass:

What was the best thing that helped you prepare for the exam?

95% of people tell me it’s practice exams.

Practice exams are extremely important, and I’ll borrow from Benjamin Franklin to explain why:

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”

Benjamin Franklin was WAY ahead of his time here.In fact, today’s research on cognitive science (mental processing such as learning effectiveness and memory formation) has proven Mr. Franklin to be absolutely correct.

Research has identified two very different ways of learning - active learning and passive learning.

Passive Learning includes things like reading a book or listening to a lecture. These are activities where you passively sit there and take information into your brain.

The traditional self-study method is a type of passive learning.

Active Learning is any method where information has to comes OUT of your brain. This includes things like taking a quiz, working an example, discussing a topic or writing notes.

Active learning is what Ben Franklin meant when he said “Involve me and I learn”.

In Active Learning, you’re not only taking in new information (passive learning), you’re actively engaged in applying what you’re learning. You are forcing the new information to come out of your brain, which in turn improves memory retention.

Research has shown that active learning leads to better long-term memory formation than passive learning.

People who pass the CQE Exam ALWAYS, ALWAYS report having worked hundreds of practice exam questions!

Practice exams are an awesome form of active learning that helps lock in the knowledge you have. So, when I created this course, I wanted to make active learning a core part of the process.

In fact, every day there will be another practice exam to take. In total I created over 1,000 practice exam questions so that you can crush it on exam day, grow your skills and grow your career.

Not only do I quiz you on the topic you’re studying each day, but I weave in questions from other relevant topics as a review. So, when the course is all over, you’ll actually have answered over 2,000 exam type questions!

If you want to get started learning actively and get CQE certified in the next 6 months, sign up for the course and let’s get started!

SUCCESS THROUGH MENTORSHIP AND ACCOUNTABILITY

BECAUSE EVERY HERO NEEDS A MENTOR TO HELP THEM ALONG THEIR JOURNEY

Becoming a CQE is a journey.

Every journey has a hero (that’s YOU), and every hero has a mentor (that’s ME).

A guide to help you avoid pitfalls and find shortcuts along their journey.

So, when I created this course, I knew it needed an element of mentorship and accountability.

You may be thinking, “but Andy, why mentorship and accountability?”.

Because the best way to get to a destination is to work with someone who’s already been there and done that.

Think about how this works in other areas of your life.

• If you want to get healthy, you go to a doctor.
• If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you hire a coach.
• And if you want to become a CQE, you find a mentor!

As your mentor I will share my tips, tricks and shortcuts that you can use to get certified!

I’ll also help you avoid pitfalls along the way, and act as your safety net throughout the whole process.

The other piece of the course is accountability.

Maintaining the discipline to achieve any tough goal (like passing the CQE Exam) requires accountability. Accountability to create and maintain a study habit that will bring you success.

The beauty of the online course is that it allows me monitor your progress through the course, and make sure you’re on track. And trust me when I say, I’ll be getting on you if you fall behind! (because I want you to be successful!)

If you’re ready to be the hero with a mentor then sign up and Let me be the Dumbledore to your Harry Potter as you take down Lord Voldemort (The CQE Exam).