Sue,
Its very hard for me to compare as I served as TG in 2003, SPL in 2004, Culinary Corps (cook staff) in 2006 and SA-TGs in 2008. Thats a lot of time from one to the other.
I made a conscious decision to NOT micro-manage. Best decision I ever made. There were some bumps along the way in staff development. We also use a briefing book and some of the TGs were depending on that for their presentations. Once I convinced them the message they needed to provide was in the syllabus and the books were only an aid, the light went off and each one performed wonderfully. As you know TG