Course Overview
This course guides you both the Foundation and Practitioner elements of the Managing Benefits qualification helping you to fully prepare for both examinations. The Foundation level aims to measure whether you have understood the benefits management principles, practices, techniques, roles, responsibilities and documents. Whereas the Practitioner level aims to confirm whether you have achieved sufficient understanding of how to apply and tailor the guidance in a scenario situation.
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Duration
This is an intensive five-day course that prepares you for the Managing Benefits Foundation and Practitioner examination.
Pre-Requisites
You must pass the Foundation exam prior to taking the Practitioner exam.
Accredited AgilePM® training is provided by ILX Group, an APMG-International Accredited Training Organisation
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Target Audience
The target audience includes 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)
Pre-Requisites
You must pass the Foundation exam prior to taking the Practitioner exam.
Pre-Reading
There is some mandatory pre-course reading that must be undertaken prior to attending this course. It will be issued with your joining instructions approximately two weeks prior to course commencement. Please ensure you allow time to complete this in full prior to your attendance , it is expected that it will take approximately four hours to complete. In addition, whilst attending your course there will also be some examination preparation evening work.
The Exams
The exams are taken online via remote proctor. Two weeks prior to course commencement TSG will arrange for an exam voucher to be issued. You then have a choice you can either:
- Book a suitable time after your virtual classroom event has finished to undertake your exam
OR
- We currently allocate exam time within the virtual classroom event. So that you can book directly, we will advise you of recommended exam timings as part of the candidate guidance — this is issued three weeks prior to course commencement
Note: You are responsible for booking your own exam.
EXAM FORMAT
The examination formats are as follows:
Foundation
- Multiple choice format
- 50 questions per paper
- 25 marks or more required to pass (out of 50 available) – 50%
- 40 minutes duration
- Closed-book
Practitioner
- Objective testing
- 8 questions per paper with 10 marks available per question
- 40 marks or more required to pass (out of 80 available) – 50%
- 2 and a half hours duration
- Open book exam (Managing Benefits guide only)
Learning Objectives
By the end of the Foundation element 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.
By attending the Practitioner element of the course you will learn:
- Planning the implementation of benefits management, select appropriate strategies to sustain and measure progress.
- Selecting and adapt principles, practices and techniques to suit different organizational environments.
- 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.
- Evaluating examples of benefits management information (documents).
- Analysing the solutions adopted in relation to a given scenario.
What’s Included
This is an intensive five-day virtual classroom course, that: includes the following
- All accompanying course material
- The official manual
- The cost of the Managing Benefits Foundation and Practitioner exam (must be taken online via remote proctor within 12 months of purchase)
