The Budget Playbook: What Every Manager Wishes Someone Had Taught Them (October Cohort)

Every fall, thousands of managers are handed a budget spreadsheet with zero instructions and told not to screw it up. This is the live, two-hour session that fixes that. I'm Rose Sheldon. Before founding Cedar Knoll Group, I spent two decades on the other side of budget reviews — as Chief Learning Officer & SVP of HR at KeyBank, VP of Global Learning Strategy at Cornerstone OnDemand, and Head of Enterprise Learning & Development at Allstate. I reduced spend by millions of dollars, grown my team's headcount and built the executive dashboards that told CEOs and COOs where the money was going. I know exactly what gets a budget approved — and what gets it zeroed out. In this live session, capped at 25 people so it stays a real working session and not a lecture, you'll learn: - How corporate budgets actually work, including where your number goes after you submit it and why that changes how you should build it - How to forecast what your team actually needs, without guessing or padding - How to evaluate technology, software, and contractor spend like someone who's approved a thousand of these requests - How to build a one-page narrative that gets your budget approved instead of picked apart - How to handle the pushback — "why is this higher than last year," "what can you cut" — before it catches you off guard This isn't a generic finance-for-managers course — it's built entirely around your real deliverable, due this cycle. $199 for this session. Bundle all three 2027 Ready Playbooks — Budget, Goals, and Performance — for $499.