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. Could become robotic and just ‘do’ without understanding the why
2. Becoming complacent
3. Benchmarking opportunities from others could be reduced with everyone performing the same
1. sometimes rushing into something can result in having to un-do our actions. Best to have certainty and clarity in place when reacting in the moment.
2. Following omeone’s advice blindly is full of perils. People need to be their own scientist, to teast strategies and prove them. This gives us the subconscious faith we need to act with confidence. Giving someone the answe does much less than letting them look it up, figure it out, find it on their own.
3. Life is alwasy changing. No matter how much we know or how much experience we have, beginner’s mind, being open, not being attached to past knowledge is im[portant to creative breakthroughs
1. For the trainee (you) a possible disadvantage is that you may lose the skill of questioning and evaluating
2. For the trainer (Michael)…a possible disadvantage is becoming bored and tired of the repititous nature of the trainees responses
3. For the class … a possible disadvantage is if everyone is doing the task the same way you lose the chance to see a things from a different perspective
This is tricky. The pipe tightens here.
1. The trainee may accept the lesson as the only way to PTO Or the material
could be dated. If the trainer does not include a “what if” dialogue or
invite questions. This could put the trainee at a disadvantage.
2. Unchallenged, the trainer could become blase. Unless the trainer
refreshes his approach and is animated and enthusiastic about his
subject he will not fully engage the trainee.
3. The class should all be on the same page. Whilst there is always a time
for extempore, the main thrust of the lecture/lesson should not be lost.
A disparate class can very soon become a desperate class. If the trainer
strays too far from his quest he reveals inconsistency and this is very
bad for the class.
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he will fail to fully engage the trainee
1. For the trainee (you) …a possible disadvantage is that the trainer has not thought things through correctly and set a task that is impossible or dangerous to achieve. If you don’t queation and just try to do, then you will become really frustrated on may be in a life threating situation without know it – because of your trust in the principles of Peel the orane.
2. For the trainer (Michael)…trainees follow each other blindly and do not really extend their thinking
3. For the class …If someone comes up with a solution, the rest just accept it, as the ‘orange is peeled’ – instead of questioning the value, authenticity or appropriateness of the solution presented.
1. For the trainee (me) …missed opportunities to contemplate the objectives of the task and observe or share the possible approaches before action
2. For the trainer (Michael)…missed opportunities to identify individual differences in approaches
3. For the class …missed opportunities for sharing and exploring alternatives
For the me – feeling pressured to just do it in the most direct way may mean I don’t get to give it a personal touch, style or flare.
For the Trainer – doesn’t get to see the way in which each person in their group would naturally problem solve, think and then act.
For the Class – loss of learning from others
1. For the trainee (you) loosing the ability to question & challange (or think)
2. For the trainer (Michael) the lack of challange may lead to the trainer becoming stale
3. For the class lost opportunity to understand how different people motivate themselves and approach training
1. Only one way to do the task and no thinking about it.
2. Only sees trainees ability to follow instructions, not hia/her ability to think.
3. No continuous improvement.
For the trainee = Rushed carry-out of missread commands.
For the trainer = Lack of perspective re student progress.
For the group = Lack of skill absorbsion, unidentified.