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. For the trainee (you) hesitation due to a lack of trust
2. For the trainer (Michael) the chance to lose control of a situation when people dont PTO
3. For the class – group negativity
1. For the trainee, I could become overwelmed with information that I have difficulty applying and become frustrated, fall behind, and quit.
2. For the trainer, become disappointed in feedback and response.
3. For the class, lack of expected responses and good feedback causes questions and provacotive topics to be slowed down to allow the entire class to participate to satisfaction
1. Waiting for instructions vs taking action. What to do if the situation is outside what for you have been trained.
2. Making sure all the bases are covered, training for appropriate scenarios and being the holder of all the knowledge.
3. Reliance on one person to have adequately trained the group.
For the trainee…you don’t know what you don’t know.
For the trainer…Poor results
For the class…no original thinking takes place!
1. misunderstanding a command
2.lack of inovation
3. Not tailored to suit learners needs
1. For the trainee (you) – risk of unknown future changes, risk of inadequate understanding of the method.
2. For the trainer (Michael) responsibility for how other people will understand and apply this training.
3. For the class – how to apply PTO in different cultures.
I would summarize the three of them in the trust needed and what would happen if the trust is blind, not analized and the consequences aren’t the good ones.
1. Trainee – shoot from the hip when a considered response is needed. Lazy response can be justified.
2. Trainer – technique is applied to the wrong situation
3. Class – need to have the judgmental skill to define the appropriate situations to use – therefore another level of training is required.
1. For the trainee the mindless following of instruction could lead to a lack of thinking. PTO is very useful because it is impractical to ‘question everything’ however you need to find the right balance.
2. For the trainer is could lead to complacency and lack of innovation. If the trainee follows instruction blindly there may be no need to review the method of instruction and thus growth is limited.
3. For the class there could be stagnation as people simply following instructions blindly without discussion and review.
1. For the trainee braindead following
2. For the trainer no critical thinking
3. for the class nothing learned