After a strong PI, the school-district student-information ART cancels its improvement backlog, skips the Problem-Solving Workshop "because we already won," and reuses last PI's unexamined working agreements. What should the RTE watch for?
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Short Explanation
Winning a PI and skipping film study is how a good season goes stale. Relentless improvement does not take a holiday because the student-information ART hit its numbers. Watch for complacency when the high-fives start canceling the workshop.
Full Explanation
Watch for complacency after success when the school-district student-information ART cancels its improvement backlog, skips the Problem-Solving Workshop because it "already won," and reuses last PI's unexamined working agreements. Relentless improvement does not pause after a strong PI; winning without film study is how a good season goes stale. Freezing all process change to "preserve" a performing peak invents fragility. Treating success as storming that requires the RTE to take over facilitation misreads the pattern. Calling success a return to forming because things are polite again confuses calm with regression. Exam caveat: teams may lighten improvement WIP after a hard PI, but canceling the workshop and ignoring working agreements is complacency, not healthy rest. Operational check: keep a minimal I&A problem-solving spine, pull at least one improvement item next PI, and refresh working agreements so SIS services for students do not coast into the next failure. In municipal and civic service contexts, record the rationale in the ART working agreements or improvement backlog so future PIs preserve the control, and re-validate after the next Inspect and Adapt against resident-facing outcomes rather than activity theater. Confirm owners, success measures, and a re-check date so the practice remains inspectable.