Past President Support Compact

What could this idea change?

The work is designed to produce a participant-owned capability record and a clear continue, change or close decision; the central local boundary is that capability development cannot predetermine appointment, give inappropriate access or treat former office holders as permanently responsible.

A simple way to start

1. Write the decision brief for Past President Support Compact: define which critical roles and skills need at least two prepared people and a current handover, the starting evidence, people affected, local authority, resource limit, success signals and stop conditions. Who could lead it: Club board sponsor and renewal lead
2. Invite members with varied experiences and affected community partners where appropriate, show what is open or fixed, make access practical and record trade-offs and minority views. Apply this specifically to Past President Support Compact and record which relevant experiences or users are still missing. Who could lead it: Club board sponsor and renewal lead with the access and privacy contacts
3. Build and test a consent-based capability partnership with a defined goal, boundaries, practice and planned ending for Past President Support Compact; complete the Past President Support Compact Mentoring Compact and Session Record, rehearse the boundary wording and confirm who may decide, refer, pause, recover or close the work. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner
4. Use a time-bounded change with named authority, capacity and stop conditions; compare evidence with the starting point and make unfinished work, unintended effects and resource pressure visible. Capture only the evidence needed to judge whether Past President Support Compact advances a deeper capability bench. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner
5. Compare the evidence with the starting point, validate meaning with affected participants or users, record gaps and unintended effects and prepare a participant-owned capability record and a clear continue, change or close decision without overstating what the trial proves. Who could lead it: Facilitator and workstream owner with an independent reviewer

What should we look for?

• Review Past President Support Compact after 90 days. Look for whether more people are building confidence, key roles have cover and useful knowledge reaches the next owner, and write down one decision the evidence supports.
• Past President Support Compact produces a participant-owned capability record and a clear continue, change or close decision by the promised decision date, with evidence limitations, participation gaps and unintended effects stated.
• People affected can explain the purpose, their choices, the boundary and how to raise an access, privacy, safety or governance concern.
• The trial shows whether a deeper capability bench improved from the recorded starting point without shifting hidden workload, risk or exclusion elsewhere.
• Every accepted action has an owner, due date and completion evidence, and the club records a reasoned continue, adapt, refer, scale or stop decision.

Before we say yes

• Does it fit a real local need?
• Can people take part safely and fairly?
• Are the facts, permissions and Rotary branding right?
• Who will lead it, and when will we review it?