Managing Benefits™
Managing Benefits shows you how to move from a “magic will now happen” approach to a well thought out, intentionally actioned, and successfully delivered approach to benefits realisation. It will allow you to take an organisational view to ensure that all initiatives add up to a maximum return and realisation of strategies over the longer term.
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Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the Foundation course, you will:
- Understand Benefits Management terminology and how an active practice of benefits realisation works
- Understand how benefits are identified, chosen, optimised, tracked, and realised
- Understand the Principles, or good practices underpinning Benefits Management
- Understand the benefits delivery cycle
- Understand the relevance and applicability of Benefits Management roles and documents
- Understand the importance, applicability, and approach to organisation wide or portfolio Benefits Management
- Be well prepared for the Foundation Exam
Participants who continue with the Practitioner course will:
- Be able to describe and apply all facets of Benefits Management, in accordance with the Managing Benefits guide
- Understand how to set up a Benefits Management practice
- Understand how to select and prioritise benefits
- Be well prepared for the Practitioner Exam
Learning Approach
Our training is run with the purposes of learning the theory, preparing you for the exam and application in the real world. The sessions are a mixture of theory and discussion and practical group-based learning involving Post It notes, markers, and flip chart paper. No laptops are required, as all learning resources are supplied.
Our trainers use many practical examples from their decades of experience as hands-on programme managers and adjust the course delivery to meet the needs of the attendees.
Target Audience
- Portfolio, Programme and Project staff responsible for defining, tracking, and realising benefits
- Organisational staff who wish to set up a Benefits Management practice
- Those involved in the governance with a particular emphasis on Benefits
- Those working in the planning of organisational change, strategy, and benefits realisation
- Those advising or providing consulting advice on Benefits practice
Prerequisites
No prerequisite is required for attendance on the Foundation course, but any Benefits Management exposure is an advantage. Our thorough pre-course work also ensures you are ready for learning.
Participants in the Practitioner course must have completed a Foundation course either online or in person.
The Practitioner exam has a pre-requisite of having passed the Foundation exam.
Duration
2 days for Foundation (15 hours – typically 8:30 am for an 8:45 am start and a 5:00pm finish with 1 hour for lunch and short morning and afternoon tea breaks. In addition, we suggest at least 10 hours of pre-course work and 1-2 hours of homework each night).
1 additional day for Practitioner
(hours and homework as above).
Resources
Once you register for the course you are sent the “Managing Benefits” manual, pre-course exercises, and Inspiring Projects Managing Benefits Desk Reference. At the course, you are given a course folder that contains copies of all the slides, extensive notes, exam practice, exercises, and sample exams from APMG.
