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 …
for the trainee (you) pto and “just do it” mentality could be a dangerous thing if the order is flawed and thought is required
for the trainer (Michael)pto is a simple command but are you open to other trains of thought?
for the class,following like sheep can be the wrong road to go down.
1 – For the trainee a disadvantage could be that you learn to purely delegate instead of teaching, never finding a better way to do something.
2 – For the trainer you can miss things if you delegate all the time and someone makes a mistake because they weren’t taught properly.
3 – For the class they could resent always being told what to do instead of why or how which they would want to know, as well as never thinking for themselves leading to lack of inovation.
1. For the trainee (you), not having the tools or knowledge “giving it a go” and getting hurt.
2. For the trainer (Michael), losing the trust/confidence of the person for not having the skills to PTO.
3. For the class, losing trust/confidence in the leader to have their safety/interests at heart.
1. For the trainee, if the lesson is not FULLY REALIZED blindly following with no questions can lead to very poor education and forging bad habits.
2. For the trainer, no feedback can limit improving the lessons, as only the few who define the lesson contribute to the quality.
3. For the class, keeping everyone at the same pace will alienate poor performers and not reward good performers, the idea of PTO is to up-skill every trainee to as close to the same point as possible.
1. For the trainee (you) not to have the basic understanding requirements or the aptitude to complete the learning objectives. Also could be assumed knowledge.
2. For the trainer (Michael) to have students who say they understand but don’t, as they don’t want to be viewed as slow to the rest of the class.
3. For the class to fall into groups aligned to the learning capacity of each other – people who understand and can do it through to people who have no idea what is happening.
1. For the trainee (you) can potentially end up in a “your fault” situation where you are answering for the decision because you just peeled the orange without asking questions or voicing your concerns.
2. For the trainer (Michael) your trainee will most likely not voice and concerns or ask any questions when asked the peel the orange, so if one reason or another the trainer has not thought of a particular scenario then the trainee will not question the trainer.
3. For the class it can potentially end up in a “sink or swim” situation where the wrong decision made by the trainer has been passed onto the trainee who just peeled the orange no questions asked and then the whole team has ended up in potential disaster situation.
Disadvantages for the trainees could arise if PTO were not used only in cases where risks and dangers demand following prescribed methods without question which is the greatest reason for PTOs. In creative situations PTO would deter lateral thinking, individuality, and even cvs2bvs.
Disadvantages for the trainer could be not to give him the opportunity to lead creatively, not to instill individuality, and to develop students who were only followers.
Disadvantages for the class would be to refuse uniqueness, individuality, listening for ideas and sharing, and a total lack of team work
for the trainee, it may limit options/ for the trainer it may stifle independent thought. For the class it may lead to a lack of vision.
for the trainee:not completely understand what is going..and waiting allways for instructions.
for the trainer: the trainees didn’t know what they want.
for the class: the don’t know how to do it as team
List three possible disadvantages of PTO as follows:
1. For the trainee it reduces my individuality.
2. For the trainer it limits any creativity.
3. For the class everyone will be doing exactly the same thing as instructed.