Level Up: How to Get Your Budget Stakeholders to Stop Playing Games

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Earlier this year, GFOA released a report that delves into the tactics or “games" used by participants in the budget process to secure more resources, such as "The Padding Play," where budget requestors inflate their needs. This session will outline the other games budget officers encounter and provide advice on how to contain and even defeat these tactics.

Panelists will share how they have leveled up their budget leadership skills to establish a budget process and decision-making environment that discourages gameplay.

Learning Objectives

  • Identify the different tactics budget stakeholders use to "game" the budget process to their advantage.

  • Establish a budget process that discourages gameplay.

  • Develop a more collaborative budget decision-making environment.