Title: 3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed | The Tim Sackett Project
Headings: 3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed
3 Reasons You’ll Never Be Fully Staffed
Content: The concept of being fully staffed is this perfect-case scenario – a theory really – in business that there is a ‘perfect’ amount of manpower you should have for the perfect amount of business that you have at any given moment. That’s a lot of perfects to happen all at once! Usually your finance team comes up with the numbers based on budgeting metrics. These numbers are drawn down to monthly, weekly, daily and hourly measures to try and give you precise number of ‘bodies’ needed at any given time. You already know all of this. What you don’t know is why this type of forecasting is so broken when it comes to staffing. These models are predictive of having a fully functioning staff to meet the perfect number needed. Fully trained, fully productive, etc. If the model says you need 25 Nurses to run a floor, in reality you probably need many more than that. Finance doesn’t like to hear this because they don’t want to pay 28 Nurses when the budget is for 25 Nurses.