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Financial Literacy Strategies

If you want to help create a financially intelligent workplace or department, your first step is to figure out a strategy for getting there. We don’t use the word strategy lightly. If you really want to change the culture, sponsoring a one-time training course or handing out an instruction book isn’t going to do it. You will need a plan and the time to implement it. You will need resources and support from others in your department and from higher-ups in the company. We’ll outline three approaches—ones that aren’t mutually exclusive—that we have seen work.

A FINANCIALLY LITERATE IT DEPARTMENT

The following tools and techniques hardly constitute an exhaustive list. But they are all approaches that you can implement ...

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