APMG - Managing Benefits™ Foundation & Practitioner

Overview

This accelerated APMG International Managing Benefits™ Foundation & Practitioner course is provided in conjunction with Creative Consulting and Training Ltd, an APMG accredited training organisation and consolidates existing guidance on benefits management into one place, while expanding on the specific practices and techniques aimed at optimizing benefits realization.

In just 4 days, you’ll learn to implement methods, including knowledge of management accountancy, behavioural finance, psychology, neuro-science and systems thinking.. You’ll also learn how to:

• Forecast 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. Facilitate an organization-wide understanding of the benefits a project or programme will produce and be able to measure when they are realized.
• Enable organizations to demonstrate more efficient and effective practices through better use of available resources.
• This enhances an organization's ability to retain motivated and skilled change management staff and to attract investors.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the APMG exam, and achieve your Managing Benefits™ Foundation & Practitioner certification. Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Successful candidates will be entitled to a free Professional Assessment at Business Agility Professional Level 1 – Explorer.

This APMG International Better Business Cases™ Foundation & Practitioner course is provided in conjunction with Creative Consulting and Training Ltd, an APMG accredited training organisation”.

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Audience

This course is ideal for:

• Senior executives, including Change and Transformation Directors, responsible for delivering value for money from the organization’s investments in change and achieving the organization’s strategic objectives.
• Senior Responsible Owners (SRO’s)/Sponsors/Project Board Executives and project and programme management (PPM) and change management professionals responsible for delivering the change initiatives from which benefits are realized.
• Portfolio managers and Portfolio Office staff responsible for managing the organization’s portfolio of change initiatives – including optimizing the contribution to strategic objectives.
• Business Case writers responsible for delivering reliable cases on which to base investment decisions.
• Finance professionals and economists responsible for undertaking, or participating in, investment appraisal and portfolio prioritization reviews.
• Business managers responsible for managing the operational functions by which, or within which, change initiatives are delivered and benefits are realized.
• Change Managers and Benefits Managers responsible for managing business change and benefits realization.
• Others with an interest in the successful delivery of change, including strategic planners, operational performance managers, internal and external auditors, procurement and commercial professionals etc.
• Change leaders e.g. Senior Responsible Owners, members of Management Boards and Directors of Change.
• Change initiators e.g. strategic planners and policy leads.
• Change appraisers and evaluators e.g. finance professionals and economists, business case writers, auditors and project appraisers.
• Change implementers/enablers e.g. Portfolio, Programme and Project Managers.
• Change support e.g. Portfolio, Programme.

Four reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

1. You'll be trained and certified faster. Learn more on this 4-day accelerated course. You'll get at least 12 hours a day of quality learning time in a distraction-free environment
2. Your course is all-inclusive. One simple price covers all course materials, exams, accommodation and meals – so you can focus on learning
3. Pass first time or train again for free. Your expert instructor will deliver our unique accelerated learning methods, allowing you to learn faster and be in the best possible position to pass first time. In the unlikely event that you don't, it's covered by your Certification Guarantee
4. Study with an award-winning training provider. We've won the Learning and Performance Institute's "Training Company of the Year" three times. Firebrand is your fastest way to learn, with 134561 students saving more than one million hours since 2001