JUST Statistics for the CQE Exam!

BENEFITS OF THE COURSE

GROW YOURSELF, YOUR CAREER AND YOUR INCOME

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.

This 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 course was intentionally designed to help busy professionals like yourself grow, learn and pass the CQE Exam.Each and every facet of the course, from its length to the daily quizzes, was carefully planned to serve that goal.

This course is designed to do more than just help you pass the CQE Exam (which is awesome!), it’s designed to help you GROW!

Growing personally is what’s going to drive career growth, and income growth!

John Maxwell said it best

“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it is almost always due to personal growth.”

Becoming a CQE separates you from the pack, because you will grow as you learn the tools, concepts and techniques in the CQE Body of Knowledge.

Remember, success only comes to those who grow.

Benjamin Franklin said

“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” - Benjamin Franklin

This course is designed around daily, continual growth over a six-month period.As you learn new skills, tools and techniques, you’ll gain new perspectives on quality that will lead to innovative solutions to old problems. You will see things differently than before.

You’ll feel like an expert who has the skills and knowledge to solve complex problems, and your new skills will give you a leg up on your competition for the next promotion.

Becoming a CQE will have a major impact on your career for years to come!

Benjamin Franklin and Stephen Covey both describe education as an investment:

“An Investment in knowledge pays the best interest” – Benjamin Franklin

The single most powerful investment in life is an investment in ourselves - Stephen Covey.

Investing the time and energy required to become a CQE will make you better at solving problems, better at improving processes, give you a broader and deeper understanding of the Quality System, and make you an expert at complex statistical tools.

Investing in these skills and knowledge will unlock your potential and continue to pay you interest for the rest of your career. This investment in education ultimately leads to personal growth, then professional growth, then income growth.

Brian Tracy described this phenomenon like this:

“The quicker you learn, the quicker you earn” – Brian Tracy

Plato discussed the inverse of this principle, and what happens to us when we ignore education:

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.-Plato

Don’t neglect education. Make an investment in your #1 resource, yourself!

Remember, growing your career (and your income) requires personal growth.

When you become a CQE you’ll have a thorough understanding of the Quality System, and the world’s most popular continuous improvement techniques (Lean, Six Sigma, CAPA, etc).

You’ll understand the most important statistical tools such as Statistical Process Control (SPC), Design of Experiments (DOE), Acceptance Sampling, Measurement System Analysis, Statistical Decision Making, Linear Regression and much, much more!

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

WHO THIS COURSE IS FOR

HARD WORKING PROFESSIONALS LOOKING TO GROW THEIR CAREER

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

If you’re reading this, you are 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.

I designed this course for busy professionals just like you who want to continue growing their career, and who want a product that will fit into their busy lifestyle.

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.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong – N. R. Narayana Murthy

while the course will be hard, nothing is as painful as staying stuck in an unfulfilling career, being passed up for promotions and missing out on more income.

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!

LEARNING WITH SPACED REPETITION

BECAUSE LET’S BE HONEST, STATISTICS IS HARD

A lot of folks are terrified about how tough statistics is, which I totally understand!

When I first started studying for the CQE Exam I was nervous about all of the complex topics and calculations within the Statistics section.

After teaching Statistics for the last 8 years, I’ve devised a strategy to handle this important topic, and I stole another strategy from Mark Twain:

“If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to eat it first thing in the morning.”

Statistics is the frog. . . It’s the big ugly part of the CQE Exam that nobody likes.

So, I uniquely designed this course so that statistics is the first topic you’ll learn, and I use two other strategies from cognitive science (active learning and spaced repetition) to improve the rate at which you learn the material and how well you remember it.

Putting statistics first does two important things.

First, you’ll find out quickly if statistics is too much for you.IT WON’T BE, YOU GOT THIS!But if it is, you can always take advantage of the 30-day, no questions asked money back guarantee.

Second, my online course allows me to continuously quiz you on statistics for the remainder of the course while we’re covering other related topics. This is called spaced repetition and it’s a unique part of this online course meant to improve both the rate of learning and long-term memory formation.

What is spaced repetition and how does it work?

In 1885, a German psychologist (Hermann Ebbinghaus), performed a series of tests on himself over various time periods to quantify the exact rate at which we humans forget.He called this the Forgetting Curve, and it shows that Humans generally forget nearly 50% of what we learn within only 20 minutes and 75% of what we learn in 1 week.

Following his breakthrough analysis, Ebbinghaus continued his research by studying the effect of what has since become known as Spaced Repetition.

What Ebbinghaus found was that he could dramatically improve his memory retention by strategically spacing out multiple review sessions of the material over time.

This is why I love my online course because I can strategically space out review sessions of statistics over time to ensure you actually learn and ultimately remember statistics.

I’ve found that when I pair up active learning (practice quizzes) with spaced repetition, it creates a winning formula for teaching people Statistics!

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).