Planned Absence: Holiday as a Test
A fortnight off is the only realistic rehearsal you will get. Using it deliberately turns a holiday into information.
Absence
The absences are already happening. Wasting them as rehearsals is the largest free loss available.
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Unplanned Absence: Illness and Emergency
No handover, no notice, no idea how long. What to do in the first hours, and the decisions to make before you need them.
Long-Term Absence
Weeks become months. The arrangements that work for a fortnight do not, and the decisions get harder rather than easier.
The Owner Who Cannot Take a Holiday
The clearest diagnostic of an over-concentrated organisation, and the hardest to address because the person concerned sets the priorities.
Covering a Role Nobody Else Understands
The absence has happened and there is no trained backup. What to do with what you actually have.
What to Do in the First Week
A compressed checklist for the week after somebody unexpectedly stops being available, whatever the reason.
Independent guidance on key-person risk, knowledge transfer and practical continuity for small organisations. External tools are compared as operational support; ownership, rehearsal and human judgement remain essential.