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. Possible Disadvantage for the trainee: lack of innovation, promote a mechanical action, routine actions.
2. Possible disadvantage for the trainer: Lack of motivation after repeating the same time after time, and eventually can have quality consequences. No continuous improvement process.
3. Possible disadvantage for the class: Standard reaction, lack of emotion. Don´t capitalize the advantage of two heads thinks better than only one.
1. For the trainee (you) … may not think for themselves.
2. For the trainer (Michael)…do not know what level of initiative the trainee will have.
3. For the class …keeps a narrow focus when there may be additional items not included in PTO.
1. For the trainee – It is never an easy task to have ones own perception on a subject, but follow someone else’s point of view.
2. For the trainer : The risk is that as the trainee follows your instructions, he could end up being a mere follower without developing on his own thinking skills. One needs to be wary of this point.
3. For the class : As the whole class is following only one point of view (instruction), the opportunity for each individual student to know or learn about other students thinking is lost.
1. For the trainee (you) … no personal touch
2. For the trainer (Michael)…the opportunities to take the course to a bvs may be lost, as insights from the class are never shared.
3. For the class … need to have the judgmental skill to define the appropriate situations to use — therefore another level of training is required.
Not everyone learns in the Same way at the same rate. Also, improvements are harder together as training is ” wrote learnt”
Trainee: Lack of innovation
Trainer: Boredom at teaching a repetitive task
Class: Again boredom at not having variation.
I must stress, however, that once a task has been learnt then the innovation door can open. People have a greater tendency to take risks if they no they can fall back on proven method.
Relieved to see this question being asked. I have noted the disadvantages in the earlier DFQ. The disadvantages of PTO are
1. For the trainee – The trainee will be good at doing routine and repetitive jobs. However it will kill creativitiy and innovation or the very least reduce it. The trainees response to any command will be just jumping up and executing it. He will not think about the validity of that command or think of better alternatives – bvs
2. For the trainer – The trainer will not be able to improve himself as he is not getting feedback or being challenged by the class. When a trainer is challenged by the class (rather than blindly following instructions) he improves his knowledge and becomes better and better equipped to train future students
3. For the class – They will not be earning more than what the instructor is teaching. If the trainee is allowed to challenge and share his ideas, the entire class will be encourages to think of better solution and contribute to the class. This will benefit the entire class.
1 For the trainee, I am accepting information without thinking about a bvs or offering any additional insights.
2 For the trainer, the opportunities to take the course to a bvs may be lost, as insights from the class are never shared.
3 For the class, the course may end up stuck in a cvs, and they wouldn’t get to share the insights from the rest of their classmates.
For the trainee it can become an habit so when the situation differs from the previus one then you might have some difficulties to end the task
For the trainer : a comand can lead to bad results
For the class: someone in the class might rely on others and no peeling anymore
1. For the trainee (you) PTO leads to DOING without THINKING. You are following instructions without any thought as to why, or if there is a better way.
2. For the trainer (Michael) you are leading blind sheep, which is not great if you want to train leaders who think for themselves.
3. For the class nobody will learn from others, as everybody is simply doing as they are told and not exploring other options.