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 …
DFQ #13:
List three possible disadvantages of PTO as follows:
1. For the trainee … We become rote learners. No creative development.
2. For the trainer … Learning is curtailed. No alternative professional
thinking.
3. For the class … They become parrots like. Just become listeners.
They don’t think outside the box.
P. Vijayachandran.
For the trainee – loss of trust in the trainer
For the trainer – integrity (if it is not what you agree with)
For the class resentment
1 not to make decisions by yourself
2 not to question the curriculum
3 to be led blindly
for the trainee: the potential of creativity disappears
for the trainer: potential intrest of team disappears as there is no advancement or individual achievements possible.
for the class : a possiblity of frustration due to lack of information input.
For the trainee resistance.
For the trainer frustration.
For the class disruption.
For the trainee, if I do not practice daily, I lose my skills.
For the Trainer, lack of attention to detail in training results in poor performance from the team.
For the class, lack of perfect preparation results in poor performance.
1. For the trainee a loss of power and the ability to think objectively and to analyze for one’s self.
2. For the trainer the potential for abuse of power which accompanies unchecked or unchallenged authority.
3. For the class the type of mass hysteria which dominates cults and extreme groups at the worst, and a lack of diversity of thoughts and ideas at best.
For the trainee-me: I might apply PTO when I should be deviating from it.
For the trainer-Michael: Abuse of power. Not you!
For the class: Not able to distinguish when it’s a good time to not listen to the group and do their own thing when necessary.
1. The trainee might only begin to do what theyre told and not start to think for themselves.
2. As a trainer you might not be training leaders but sheep who do what theyre told. If this is the case then the training was for nothing..
3. For the class they are stuck doing the same thing even tho they may have better ways to do it, they are unable to provide input to the trainer.
For the trainee you are being guided rather than thinking for yourself, not learning to work out the problem for yourself
For the trainer you may not get better ideas coming forward as everyone is condition’d to it the same way
For the class this could mean that everyone does as instructed but does not look outside the box at better ways GBB