APMG-International Managing Benefits™ Foundation E-learning

ILX Group’s Managing Benefits Foundation e-learning takes approximately 10-12 hours to complete and fully prepares you for the Foundation examination. The e-learning is broken into bite-size sessions, combining leading-edge multimedia and interactive exercises for optimum enjoyment and knowledge retention.

About the course

The Managing Benefits framework provides organisations with guidance on how to focus on what measurable benefits they need to deliver to satisfy the strategic objectives of the organisation. This allows them to focus limited resources on the most beneficial activities. The purpose of the Managing Benefits guidance and certification scheme is to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a variety of organisations, with generally applicable guidance encompassing benefits management principles, practices and techniques. The Foundation qualification is also a pre-requisite for the Practitioner qualification.

Duration

Approximately 10-12 hours duration.

Learning 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 its effective practice, and the key success characteristics
Principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are based
Five practices contained within the benefits management cycle and relevant techniques applicable to each practice
Scope of key roles and responsibilities for benefits management and the typical contents of the main benefits management documentation
Approaches to implementation and the factors to consider in sustaining progress.

12 months online access to our accredited Managing Benefits Foundation course
Full tutor support
Managing Benefits Foundation exam: valid for 12 months from purchase date. Exam must be taken online via remote proctor.

Optional extras

Official Managing Benefits manual

What's covered?

Introduction and overview
Principles
Identify and quantify practice
Value and appraise practice
Plan practice
Realise practice
Review practice
Portfolio based application
Implement sustain
Exam simulator

Target audience

Managing Benefits is for 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 and 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 and project managers)
Change support staff (e.g. portfolio, programme and project office staff)

The exam format for the Managing Benefits Foundation qualification is as follows: