Overkill. That's all I can say. Obviously, their reasoning must be that this will ensure the recall items to be executed correctly. I can think of several occasions where this would be detrimental to safety.
1: Recall items + contingency procedure/emerg. turn.
2: Emergency descent
3: Situations where you're unable to hear the other guy.
4: Everything else that require the PF to revert to the basics. Namely; Aviate, Navigate, Communicate. The recall items should be done (by PM) while PF is at stage one...Aviating.
It sounds like one guy with a brilliant idea, has managed to convince your training dept. with something that Boeing did not intend when they designed their procedures.