Do You Understand Benefits Management? - Weekly Newsletter


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16 March 2025

Hey friend,

I spent the last week thinking about the cost/benefit of my work. Am I doing too much? Is it costing me too much in other areas of my life? Should I be proud of myself for my efforts or should I be going harder? Do you ever wonder the same thing?

Some Thoughts

Intensity is common. Consistency is rare. New Years Resolutions. Super strict eating plans. A reading habit. All of these are areas where we apply intensity. We do them for a day, a week or a month. Then we fall off. Consistent practice is much more difficult. But much more fruitful. When you decide on the habits you want to pursue, make sustainability a part of their core. Rather do less, but do it more consistently. The results will be much better.

What you will learn this week:

☀️ What exactly is benefits management?

🌍 Why you should be measuring it.

🍄 How it can improve your decision-making process.


Do You Understand Benefits Management?

You have a completed project. The product is built and the close-out report is being done. At the surface level you can see what has occurred.

But do you know what unintended consequences your project has caused? Both good and bad?

Maybe you should also look deeper.

Over time, organisations have realised that they should not just be recording the successful completion of their projects. They should also look more deeply at the benefits created and if these were actually desirable.

Benefits management is thus a crucial process that focuses on ensuring that the intended benefits of a project are realised and sustained over time. It is a series of practices aimed at identifying, planning, measuring, and managing the benefits throughout the lifecycle of a project.

Here are the best practices of benefits management and how to do it more effectively.

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Postscript

We have seen an overwhelming response to our content on remote project management. Our free ebook has been downloaded over 500 times, which makes me very happy. So... we have decided to make a course going more in-depth with the methods I personally used to become (and remain) a remote PM. Sign up to the free waitlist HERE and we hope to see you online soon 😎

Until next time,

Jonathan (The Effective Project Manager)


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