APMG Managing Benefits™ Foundation & Practitioner

This accelerated APMG International Managing Benefits™ Foundation & Practitioner course is provided in conjunction with Creative Consulting and Training Ltd, an APMG accredited training organisation. This course 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.

• Module 1: Definitions, scope and objectives of benefits management, barriers to its effective practice, and the key success characteristics.
• Module 2: Principles upon which successful approaches to benefits management are based.
• Module 3: Five practices contained within the Benefits Management Cycle and relevant techniques applicable to each practice.
• Module 4: Scope of key roles and responsibilities for benefits management and the typical contents of the main benefits management documentation.
• Module 5: Approaches to implementation and the factors to consider in sustaining progress.
• Module 6: Planning the implementation of benefits management, select appropriate strategies to sustain and measure progress.
• Module 7: Selecting and adapt principles, practices and techniques to suit different organizational environments.
• Module 8: Identifying activities that should be undertaken during each of the practices of the Benefits Management Cycle together with the accountabilities and responsibilities of each of the defined roles.
• Module 9: Evaluating examples of benefits management information (documents).
• Module 10:  Analysing the solutions adopted in relation to a given scenario.

Foundation:

• Duration: 40 minutes
• Format: Multiple choice, Closed-book
• Number of questions: 50 questions per paper
• Passing score: 25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) - 50%

Practitioner:

• Duration: 2 ½ hours
• Format: Objective testing, Open book exam (Managing Benefits guide only)
• Number of questions: 8 questions per paper with 10 marks available per question
• Passing score: 40 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) - 50%

There are no prerequisites for this accelerated course.

Your accelerated course includes:

• Accommodation *
• Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
• On-site exams **
• Exam vouchers **
• Practice tests **
• Certification Guarantee ***
• Courseware
• Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
• 24-hour lab access
• Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts.
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Seven reasons why you should sit your course with Firebrand Training

• Two options of training. Choose between residential classroom-based, or online courses
• You'll be certified fast. With us, you’ll be trained in record time
• Our course is all-inclusive. A one-off fee covers all course materials, exams**, accommodation* and meals*. No hidden extras.
• Pass the first time or train again for free. This is our guarantee. We’re confident you’ll pass your course the first time. But if not, come back within a year and only pay for accommodation, exams and incidental costs
• You’ll learn more. A day with a traditional training provider generally runs from 9 am – 5 pm, with a nice long break for lunch. With Firebrand Training you’ll get at least 12 hours/day of quality learning time, with your instructor
• You’ll learn faster. Chances are, you’ll have a different learning style to those around you. We combine visual, auditory and tactile styles to deliver the material in a way that ensures you will learn faster and more easily
• You’ll be studying with the best. We’ve been named in the Training Industry’s “Top 20 IT Training Companies of the Year” every year since 2010. As well as winning many more awards, we’ve trained and certified over 135,000 professionals

*For residential training only. Doesn't apply for online courses
**Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts

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