Getting Everyone on the Bus for Budget Reform
As a budget professional, you and your team are anxious to embark on a journey to improve your budget process and implement best practice. However, your chief executive and/or elected officials are not on board. Knowing their support will be critical as you challenge the status quo and rethink past practice, what do you do?
In this session, hear from leaders who have successfully reformed the budget process with support from the C-suite and elected officials, as well as those who worked to build that support. Speakers will provide strategies you can use to rethink current practices and improve budgeting in your organization.
Learning Objectives
Articulate the benefits of rethinking budgeting in terms that the chief executive and elected officials will appreciate.
Discuss strategies for how to gain the support of top leadership and decision-makers for rethinking budgeting.
Share examples of local governments that are rethinking budgeting with support from executive leadership and elected representatives.