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 …
I see more gain than loss from PTO. All that I need to be is cautious. Like a coin has two sides. One side shows its worth ‘value’ and the other side shows the ‘authority’ You have worked hard to earn the ‘COIN’ . Creat another higher ‘value’ with it or just put in a slot machine, waiting for lady luck
I dont have any disadvantage of PTO.
If you are following the leader – you have no choice . you dont like him change him
If you want to train for leadership – let the trannees decied weather to follow you or not. you will every thing to retain them.
1. For the trainee (you) we stop thinking crittically and just do what we are told.
2. For the trainer (Michael) the potential for abuse of power which accompanies unchecked or unchallenged authority.
3. For the class, a possiblity of frustration due to lack of information input and the creativity might be lost
1. For the trainee (you) : To stop thinking crittically and just do what you are told.
2. For the trainer (Michael : The trainer should know the limits of his capabilities and not misuse his authority.
3. For the class : Any mistake made by anyone will affect everyone.
Like every strength even PTO thinking has its own weaknesses
For me the trainee’s (me)personal accomplishments or developments might take a back seat and might take more time to reach a specific goal.
For the trainer, most of the time he needs to see the result rather than the growth of the team.
In a class there might be few who are different and their ideas will never surface and the team’s growth might get stagnant because of that.
I’m glad we’re discussing the downside of PTO thinking. While many leaders in business and politics like to stress the value of competition, it is really cooperation – communities working together for the common good and for the benefit of future generations – that is the basis of life. Particularly here in the United States (we’re in the early stages of what will probably turn out to be the most serious economic meltdown in our history) we are seeing the payoff for having created s system in which unregulated competition with no ethical boundaries or concern for consequences is rewarded. Some commentators say that unless we find a way to develop a system in which shared values and the long-term view are rewarded, we may be doomed.
1. The trainer gives you a bad instruction & you execute it successfully without question, eg. The Holocaust.
2. The trainee misunderstands your instruction & even though it doesn’t sound right to him he executes without question, e.g. “Don’t leave the witnesses” (i.e.We must take the witnesses with us & protect them) gets misunderstood as “Don’t leave any witnesses”.
3. Someone in the class has a better idea than the trainer but won’t speak up because their job is to do or die & not ask why.
For me it could be risky if the PTO is of self-interest to the person giving the instruction or PTV
For the trainer, trainees follow instructions blindly without validation
For the class, which is the same for me , it could be risky if the PTO is of self-interest to the person giving the instruction or PTV
one disadvantage on PTO it could be that it bring no benefit to me especially if I don’t see how it links to my overall big goal in life, I could be doing something simply to follow the rules, or because it has always been done this way. hence it continues to be done, simply out of compliance with an establish rule or system, but what is the end benefit to it.
For the trainer, is could be disadvantage if he is not open to suggestion as from the trainee as to why we have to simply PTO that way or at this time.
he could miss the whole new way of peeling it simply for lack of understanding of his rule as leader.
in this case, he (or you) just want the order to be follow without giving it thought as to why.
and to the class, we could be loosing a moment to expand our awareness that we are capable of doing something greater
we are being trained to be robot and listen to every command without questioning
1. For the trainee (you)… blinkered vision
2. For the trainer (Michael)… Plato Truth Virus.
3. For the class… mob mentality.
1. For trainee…. Boredom… No excitement for learning something new…
2. For trainer…. Boredom… Same old thing… No excitement for sharing new ideas…
3. For class….. Boredom… No exciting exchange of information and no ideas generated for better training…