Managing Benefits™ Foundation Premium - eLearning (exam included)

Learn how to identify the measurable benefits you need to deliver.

The Managing Benefits framework provides organizations with guidance on how to focus on the measurable benefits they need to deliver to meet the organization's strategic objectives. This enables them to focus limited resources on the most beneficial activities. The Managing Benefits guidance and certification system aims to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide range of organizations, with broadly applicable guidance covering benefits management principles, practices and techniques.

The Foundation level aims to measure whether you understand the principles, practices, techniques, roles, responsibilities and documents of benefits management.

Details of the Managing Benefits Foundation e-learning course

• 1 year access to the platform
• 10 lessons
• Duration of 12 hours
• 1 official test sample
• Access 24/7
• Official APMG Managing Benefits Foundation exam done online

Training objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to understand and describe the following:

• Definitions, scope and objectives of benefits management, barriers to effective implementation and key success factors
• Principles underpinning successful benefits management practices
• Five practices included in the Benefits Management Cycle and relevant techniques for each practice
• The scope of key roles and responsibilities for benefits management and the typical content of the main benefits management documentation
• Approaches to implementation and the factors that should be considered to sustain progress.

What will be covered?

• What is benefit management?
• The principles of benefits management
• The benefits management cycle
• Identify and quantify practices
• Evaluate and assess practices
• Plan practices
• Realize the practice
• Reviewing practices
• Portfolio-based benefits management
• Implementing and sustaining progress

Course content

Managing Benefits provides organizations with guidance on how to focus on what measurable benefits they need to meet the organization's strategic objectives. This allows them to focus limited resources on the most beneficial activities. The purpose of Managing Benefits is to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide variety of organizations, with broadly applicable guidance covering the principles, methods and techniques of benefits realization.

Managing Benefits™ includes:

• An overview of what benefits realization is
• Description of the seven principles on which successful Benefits Management is based and how to apply them in practice
• Description of the five practices that make up the Benefits Management cycle and how to apply them.
• Guidance on how to implement and apply Benefits Management at different levels of the organization.

The purpose of the Managing Benefits training and certification is to provide leaders and practitionersfrom different industries, organizations and departments with practical tools that guide them through benefits realization principles, application and techniques.

Certification in this course will ensure that any change or investment in a company generates the greatest positive outcome and the least negative outcome possible. The course will provide you with a framework of principles and practical tools to effectively get started with integration in your organization.

Target audience

Managing Benefits™ is particularly interesting for:

• Those working with change (change management, strategic planners, business case developers)
• Project managers
• Project office employees

Please note that the courses can be in Swedish or English. There are no Swedish exams or materials available for this training and official certification.

The key benefits of Managing Benefits™

• Implement methods, including knowledge of management accounting, behavioral finance, psychology, neuroscience and systems thinking.
• Forecast realistic benefits to develop business cases that address business issues and objectives and provide a way to measure success.
• Describe costs and benefits to drive business objectives.
• Facilitate an organization-wide understanding of the benefits that a project or program will deliver and be able to measure when they are realized.
• Enable organizations to demonstrate more effective practices through better use of available resources. This improves the organization's ability to retain motivated and skilled staff for change management and to attract investors.

Managing Benefits Foundation Examination and Certification

• 50 multiple choice questions
• 40 minutes
• Candidates need at least 25 correct answers (50%) to pass the exam.
• Upon passing the exam, you will receive a Managing Benefits Foundation certificate from APMG.