Managing Benefits Practitioner - Self-paced

This Self-paced package includes:

• Online courseware (12 month license)
• Online proctored exam

The Managing Benefits™ Practitioner qualification has been carefully designed to complement existing best practice in portfolio, programme and project management such as PRINCE2®, MSP®, P3O® & MoP®. It consolidates existing guidance on benefits management into one place, while expanding on the specific practices and techniques aimed at optimising benefits realisation.

• Learning is completely flexible to suit your busy schedule
• The interactive online course consists of voice-over and animation to keep you engaged throughout the learning
• You can access it anywhere in the world and take your exam online at a time that suits you best

Managing Benefits™ is a trade mark of APMG International, used under permission of APMG International. All rights reserved.

The target audience includes all those with a role in ensuring best use of funds by maximising the benefits realised from change initiatives. This multi-disciplinary group includes:

• Change leaders (e.g. senior responsible owners & directors of change)
• Change initiators (e.g. strategic planners and policy leads)
• Change appraisers and evaluators (e.g. business case developers and project appraisers)
• Change implementers/enablers (e.g. portfolio, programme & project managers)
• Change support staff (e.g. portfolio, programme & project office staff).

Everyone involved in managing benefits, development of the Business Case, or indeed the Project will benefit from the tools and techniques described in the online Managing Benefits course, and can go on to take a recognised certification through the Foundation exam.

Although Managing Benefits would apply to any organisation undertaking change, it is particularly relevant to companies using PRINCE2® or MSP®, and builds on the Benefits Realisation within the project and programme lifecycle.

As an individual, Managing Benefits also builds on your existing qualifications of PRINCE2® or MSP® to better plan, forecast and realise improvements for your business.

Managing Benefits Practitioner is the next step from our Managing Benefits Foundation online course.

Candidates will need to have the Managing Benefits Foundation certificate, which is available through our Managing Benefits Foundation online course.

The practitioner level gives you an increased knowledge and expands on the scope of benefits you and your organisation will receive.

Benefits for your organisation:

• Realise benefits to improve prospects in terms of investors, clients, revenue and efficiency levels regardless of professional discipline and type of organisation.
• Ability to demonstrate more efficient and effective practices through better use of available resources. This enhances an organisation’s ability to retain motivated and skilled change management staff and to attract investors.
• Improved return on investment from change initiatives as more benefits are realised and sustained for longer.
• Enhanced confidence on the part of regulators and funding agencies – so helping ensure continued funding for change.
• Have an organisation-wide understanding of the benefits a project or programme will produce and be able to measure when they are realised.

• Enhanced professional competence through benefits management practices and techniques.
• Ability to implement methods, including knowledge of management accountancy, behavioural finance, psychology, neuro-science and systems thinking.
• Understanding of the seven principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are built and applied to projects, programmes and portfolios. The guide provides a route map to adoption of more cost-effective techniques and practices.
• Adept at forecasting realistic benefits to produce business cases which address business issues and objectives and provide a route to measure success.
• Outline costs and benefits to drive business objectives.

This Managing Benefits Practitioner course provides:

• An overview of benefits management – what it is, the case for doing it, and some common misconceptions that can limit its effectiveness in practice.
• Descriptions of the seven principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are built, and examples of how they can be/have been applied in practice.
• Guidance on how to apply benefits management at a portfolio level, as well as at an individual project or programme level.
• Details of the five practices in the Benefits Management Cycle and examples of how they can be/have been applied in practice.
• Advice on how to get started in implementing effective benefits management practices and sustain progress.