APMG-International Managing Benefits™ Foundation Online

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.

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Course overview

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.

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 and sustain
Exam simulator

What's included?

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
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Exam information

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

Multiple choice format
50 questions per paper
25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) - 50%
40 minutes duration
Closed book

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, and who have an interest in the successful delivery of change. This multi-disciplinary group includes:

Change leaders, e.g. Sponsors and Directors of Change.
Change initiators, e.g. Strategic Planners and Policy Leads.
Change appraisers and evaluators, e.g. Business Case Writers and Appraisers.
Change implementers/enablers, e.g. Portfolio, Programme and Project Managers, as well as Benefit Owners.
Change support staff, e.g. Portfolio, Programme and Project Office staff, including Benefits Managers.

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