Test how prepared you really are by running a real scenario, so a comfortable rating does not hide a dangerous gap, especially in whether the board could actually act.
After the scored diagnostic, before you write your priority plan. Set the scene: it is a normal Monday, and the key person, often you, is gone with no notice. Walk it forward and answer honestly.
| Question | Honest answer |
|---|---|
| Who realizes the person is gone, and who do they call first? | |
| Can payroll still run this week without them? | |
| Can someone get into the bank and the critical systems today? |
| Question | Honest answer |
|---|---|
| Who is leading, and do they know they are allowed to? | |
| Can the board meet, even by phone, and formally put someone in charge within a few days? | |
| Who tells the staff, and who tells the biggest funders and partners? |
| Question | Honest answer |
|---|---|
| Could the essential work keep running without the person there to explain it? | |
| What promise, relationship, or task would quietly fall through the cracks? |
Where your honest answer to any question is worse than your diagnostic rating suggested, trust the honest answer and adjust your finding. If the board honesty question comes back as freeze, that is a governance problem underneath the continuity problem: add Board Governance and Development to your plan as a parallel first move, because no emergency plan holds without a board that can use it. Your true standing here is the baseline your finished plan is measured against later.
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