Student Union
Leadership Lab

Free practical tool / draft

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a usable next step.

The Leadership Continuity Check turns one unfinished priority into a record another authorized person can understand.

Start with your current organizational records. A completed worksheet does not grant authority. Keep confidential cases and personal information out of this draft.

Leadership Continuity Check

Blank worksheet. Use only information you can appropriately include.

What needs to move, and which member need does it address?

What has actually happened? Mark confirmed, proposed, pending, stopped or unknown.

Source title, issuing body, version/date and relevant section or decision. What does it permit?

Which spending, publication, data use or other permissions remain unconfirmed?

Who can authorize the next step? Which current record supports this?

Who will do the work once permitted? Who should be consulted?

An action within confirmed authority, or a step to clarify the missing authority.

What observable result would show completion?

Where will the sources, decisions and unresolved questions be stored? Who owns access?

Who checks what, and when? Mark unagreed dates as proposed.

What should an incoming person verify before carrying this forward?

Why the fictional example matters

Every organization, document and permission in the Cedar Reach Students’ Association example is invented. Its council approved internal mapping, while public guide publication remains unapproved. The next action respects that distinction. This demonstrates a way to reason from supplied records; it is not a rule for real associations.


Before you share it

Check before you hand this on.

Ask another authorized reader to identify:

  1. The next permitted action.
  2. Who owns it, and the dated source supporting that authority.
  3. The first unresolved dependency and who can clarify it.
  4. Where the successor obtains the current records and their own access.

If something is missing, leave it marked unknown and record the next clarification. Filling every field does not establish permission.

See the fictional worked-example Brief →