The board meeting is in two days. Someone’s going to ask what happened with HR — and what’s being done about it.
You have an answer. You’re just not sure it’s the right one yet.
The transition itself went smoothly enough. It’s the part after the transition that feels less certain.
It tends to surface in predictable places:
Compliance doesn’t pause for a transition. The deadlines, the enforcement, the judgment calls that used to happen automatically — they’re still due, even though the person who used to catch them isn’t there.
Keeping the transition internal feels safer — fewer people know, fewer questions get asked, less disruption to the rest of the organization.
But exposure doesn’t announce itself. It sits quietly in the gap between someone should look at that and someone actually doing it, and it doesn’t show up until it’s already a problem — often at the exact moment a board member or auditor decides to ask.
Bringing in outside support closes that gap while it’s still small. But it means admitting, before you’re ready to say it out loud, that the transition is bigger than a staffing hire.
Both are workable. Only one of them gives you room to act before the board asks.
Before your next board update, it’s worth asking:
Hesitating on more than one of these is worth paying attention to.
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