Jul 202013
1.0 ….. FTE
For those of you out there with me in the business world, FTE is the acronym for Full Time Equivalent.
What does that mean to you?
- A few thousand dollars on the wrong side of a troubled financial statement?
- Something in the way of meeting an arbitrary standard?
- An impediment to perceived success?
In one way or another, many of us find ourselves struggling yet again with red ink, decreasing volumes, and high expenses. I know I am. This is especially true in the healthcare industry. Am I alone in this struggle? ??? I don’t think so.
The loss of 1.0 is a leadership failure.
A failure in prediction, a failure in growth, a failure in hiring and discipline.
Maybe it is not entirely YOUR failure.
Maybe it is largely the fault of the 1.0.
Maybe it’s the product of misguided government leaders, pinching an industry between the demand for more and better services and the continual reduction of funding necessary to do just that.
But it is still a failure.
Some of us have already made hard decisions this year that have affected 1.0.
Some of us have more to come.
1.0 has two hands, two feet, a head and a heart.
He is a sick wife caregiver,
She is a single parent with four little ones.
He is a seasoned professional, devoting decades to serving the hurting around him.
She is a fresh faced, idealistic young graduate, eager to make a difference.
Jesus was on a mission for 1.0
“And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner…” Matthew 15, NIV
“But we had to celebrate and be glad, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’” Matthew 15, NIV.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Matthew 19, NIV
His words, not mine.
Whether the Lost Sheep, the Lost Son, or Zacchaeus, Jesus lived… and died to save 1.0.
Can I do no less? I challenge myself, and you, to care for 1.0, whether current employee or not, deserving or not.
“For God so loved 1.0 that he gave his one and only Son. John 3:16 modified.