PEEL THE ORANGE (PTO) – BENEFITS
The operating rooms in a trauma centre would be useless without the trauma teams being skilled in PTO. Any major airport would be a daily disaster area if pilots and air traffic controllers were unskilled in PTO. No football team could survive a season without highly developed PTO skills.
In ordinary, everyday life there are probably few occasions where an individual needs to be a skilled PTOer and that is a good thing. However, where one gets into leadership roles in high performance scenarios, emergency or dangerous situations or where timing is critical, or in highly competitive business and other environments that PTO becomes a strategic tool that can give the skilled user and/or team that coveted survival advantage’.
In the last DFQ you were asked to list three benefits that are likely to come from the PTO leadership skill.
PEEL THE ORANGE (PTO) – DISADVANTAGES
Today, I want to discuss the possible disadvantages of “Peel the Orange”. There are, of course, pluses and minuses to everything and PTO is no exception. Often, the greater the upside in a situation the greater the potential downside.
So what are the risks, dangers and potential disadvantages of PTO?
DFQ #13:
List three possible disadvantages of PTO as follows:1. For the trainee (you) …
2. For the trainer (Michael)…
3. For the class …
1. The personal conflict that can occur when blindly following orders.
2. The trainee’s learning style may not suit the trainers delivery method.
3. Missing the many different ways a task or action can be done to achieve the same outcome.
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1. …inflexible, mindless, I say you do.
2.…recruit not able to correctly react to all eventualities
3.…team not able to cope in all situations
1. …… may not allow flexibility for changed situations.
2. …… may lead to assumptions about output quality and perceived less need for monitoring.
3. …… not drawing on the views/feedback of trainees therefore limiting opportunities for improvement.
1. Lose sight of the broader context
2. Too much effort using PTO methods when it may not be required
3. Lack of individuality
possible disadvantage for:
1. for the trainee is tunnel thinking, do it his way or the high way
2. for the trainer it could be the time taken to learn a skill that may never be applied by the leader, but only the troops.
3. for the class it could be lack of individuality or creative license.
1. For the trainee not seeing the whole picture or making the links as to how the PTO components fit into the “real world”. No real opportunity to “improve” the practice if we perceive such exists. Boredom.
2. For the trainer boredom through repetition. Frustration when trainees can’t get it right.
3. For the class frustration & boredom at others in the class who have not caught on as quickly & … in the spirit of good & effective military training … group punishment when the one slow person makes a mistake; like making everyone in the class take off their jumpers in -5C weather because one person forgot to wear theirs.
1. For the trainee – the potential they will do by rote without really understanding. No opportunity to question or reflect – potential to create people who do not question just ‘do’
2. For the trainer – may lack opportunity for their own growth and ongoing learning as they are not challenged – may impact long-term motivation
3. For the class – may not receive the benefits of the learning that takes place through debate, discussion and exploration of ideas.
For the trainee it is less satisfaction as to deal with issue on a creative way.
For the trainer it becomes routine work in a long run.
For the class high level discipline abates person’s confidence like a human being.
1. For the Trainee: The ability to absorb the information and skill may be reduced by the participant not being able to think about the task as well as do the task. The ability to do the task well may also be reduced since, the trainee may not clearly know where and how this task fits into the bigger picture. The designated style of doing the task may not be in line with the persons preferred learning style, IE. Audio, Visual, Kinetic, etc.
2. For the Trainer: It may take longer to teach the task if the trainee is not engaged more deeply than, ‘just do it’. The group approach may offer speed, but no 1 on 1 interaction, conversely, the 1 on 1 approach is time consuming and does not offer some of the advantages of the group task.
3. For the Class: If being instructed on PTO in a group situation, if a trainee is having problems they may not receive the attention required, which is an individual issue that affects the group. On the other hand, to give special attention to the individual, may slow down and disrupt the group. The group could potentially grow and expand faster if an organic approach were applied, allowing input and feedback from each individual, building from one participant to the next, PTO in a group does not offer this.
1. For the trainee the risk would be in not having your own thoughts.
2. Reaching a plateau in your ability to come up with new ideas for teaching.
3. The class becoming bored with the information.