Benefits Management

Introduction

Projects and programmes are established to deliver change and benefits to the organisation and their clients. At the start of the project or programme organisations often invest considerable effort in defining and gaining agreement to a business case to justify the investment. However, visibility of the “benefits” and how they are to be delivered is often restricted to a relatively small group. As the project challenges of delivery take centre stage the original objectives and defined benefits often take a back seat, or worse still, sink into oblivion. This training programme is aimed at improving a delegates understanding of benefits management and providing the key elements of a benefits management lifecycle.

Training Objectives

• Upon completion of this intensive one-day programme delegates will:
• Understand the key principles of Benefits Management
• Be able to build a cause and effect map defining how the benefits will be delivered.
• Be able to build a Benefits Scorecard based on the cause and effect model.
• Understand the different stages and related activities of the Benefits Management lifecycle.

Course Content

The one-day course contains a number of exercises mainly based around a case study specific to your organisation that will reinforce the learning of delegates.

Introduction
Benefits Management Key Principles
Benefits Map - Cause and Effect
Four Perspectives to Benefits Management
Defining a Benefits Scorecard
Defining Benefits
Measuring Benefits and Setting Targets
Defining Initiatives to ensure Benefits realisation
Developing a Benefits Scorecard
Benefits Lifecycle
Proposal Stage
Assessing and Planning Benefits
Managing Benefits Delivery
Programmes and Projects

Coaching

How often have you left a training course full of enthusiasm to apply your newfound knowledge and then reality imposes self and your good intentions flounder? To help individuals and teams avoid this a minimum of four days of structured coaching are recommended. The coaching is focused on the benefits management aspects of key projects and programmes.

Who should attend?

Business executives, managers, project and programme managers and team managers who will be involved in defining, assessing and managing the delivery of project and programme benefits. The maximum number of attendees is 15.