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 – leadership skills will be stymied since conditioned
to follow order without exercising own thinking.
2. For the trainer – boredom will creep in as a result of routine drudgery
personal growth will decline leading to loss of leadership acumen.
3. For the class – morale will nose dive, leading to loss of interest and
engagement.
For the trainee, the disadvantage is that I start seeing everything like an orange, & might not be equipped to handle an apple.
For the trainer, the disadvantage is that the orange becomes repetitive – there are only so many ways to peel an orange, & the training becomes unthinking.
For the class, oranges can be boring, may not be relevant, or may make you think there is nothing more to life than citrus.
1. For the trainee (you) not to think and question when there is an obvious error in what is being required to be done.
2. For the trainer (Michael), to become complacent and abuse the power of having absolute authority.
3. For the class the disadvantage is that if they do not have confidence in the trainer, they may become a disfunctional and undisciplined unit.
Trainee – until you’re very skilled at the task and clear on the outcomes you may make a lot of lot of mistakes and take wrong turns along the way ie be ineffective in achieving the desired result
Trainer – You don’t know if the trainee is actually achieving the desired outcome or understands the task
Class – uncertainty
1. For the trainee (you) uncertainty about the “right” outcome when peeling an unfamiliar orange.
2. For the trainer (Michael) lost opportunity to learn from trainees’ questions, experience and insight on orange peeling.
3. For the class: overuse of PTO can encourage blind obedience rather than the creativity / insight that can come from good questions / responses.
1. For the trainee, it could lead to the phenomena of following blindly, not questions asked.
2. For the trainer (Michael)…it may well result in a different form of dictatorship, where one is not opening up to newer ideas and alternatives of offering the training.
3. For the class, a bit of hopelessness can occur as a result of not having an input, and without discussion amongst themselves.
1. For the trainee (you) it allows room for misinterpretation.
2. For the trainer (Michael) it could could be a realisation that there is a lack of skill in giving direction.
3. For the class it could just promote negativity.
1. For the trainee (me) the PTO directive could be misunderstood/implemented incorrectly.
2. For the trainer (Michael), this would set a poor precedent.
3. For the class, some confusion.
1. For the Trainee things been tought may not GEL, so paitence being a vertue.
2. Fir the Trainer they will have a class of people whom are impaitent and just wont to get it over and done with.
3. For the Class All hope will be lost and they will just wont to get moving on to something that does interest them…
Disadvantages possible are ..
For the trainee (me) …. that I have not practised the task first and may take time to conquer all aspects of it – self doubt, incorrectly interpret what is asked of me – low self esteem
For the trainer (Michael) …. that he will have a team member who is confused by his instructions and he will question his own delivery, ability to achieve the desired outcome and feel deflated
For the class …. that they will see the task as unachievable, have doubt about their team members ability and doubt about their leaders ability to clearly deliver a command and gain the required outcome from that team member creating low morale amongst the team