The purpose of this guide is to provide managers and practitioners from multiple disciplines, working in a wide variety of organizations, with generally applicable guidance encompassing benefits management principles, practices and techniques. It includes an overview of benefits management, descripsions of the seven principles upon which successful benefits management practices are built, details of the five practices in the benefits management cycle relating to individual change initiatives and examples of how they can be applied in practice, guidance on how to apply benefits management at a collective or portfolio level, encompassing all projects and programmes included in the change portfolio and advice on how to get started in implementing effective benefits management practices.