How To Get Cooperation (1950)

[Music] we all know what the word cooperate means from the prefix Co meaning with or together and from operate or work we know that cooperate means work together but do we really understand cooperation do we know how to get other people to cooperate with us as physics teacher and audiovisual coordinator at our school I have many chances to find out for instance one day I was discussing an experiment with Harry Collins well then the object seems to move better if you overcome the inertia with a steady easy push rather than a quick sharp blow is that it that's right there's momentum Mr BWI they're here the new projectors yes Ed and I'm here talking with Harry I'll be with you shortly Harry there's momentum to be overcome you see I I think I have it thanks Mr bald just a second Harry I want to talk to you in a minute Mr Balin I guess saw the new projectors being delivered how soon can we unpack them no day like today I'm glad they've arrived now we can go ahead with that plan for training student operators we talked about so films can be shown better in the classrooms huh oh Harry I watch in The Operators Club performing from now on the show films during your study hour time I don't know I don't think I want to be an operator on on that basis oh why not what's the matter don't be a loafer Harry I'm not a Goodbye Mr bald that's cooperation for you what's eating H well Harry is usually Cooperative he's a member of the student council the class Comm and the basketball team and hardly what I'd call a loafer well I think he ought to help but we don't need him in the operators Club well Ed I'm glad that you're so interested in these projectors I uh hope you'll be able to help organize the operator Club I'd sure like to all right here's a plan that's been successful see what you think of it we'll need to recruit operators build projector stands manual training classes can help on that train The Operators and arrange schedules so they're available for every class period and then plan our maintenance so the projectors will remain in good condition it's a big program and we'll need cooperation from a lot of people that's great Mr Baldwin I've got a start already here's a notice I typed up for the bulletin board would you look it over something wrong with it when you talked to Harry just now you didn't get much cooperation did you no well I'm not sure this notice says just the right thing either say I'd like to show you a physics experiment here if you were asked to get that weight moving in the quickest way how would you do it oh I hit it as hard as I could with the hammer you would try it sure watch this no watch this but what does getting this thing started have to do with getting C oh I get it you mean I've been using Sledgehammer methods about the operators Club what do you think yeah of course people generally do have a nursery about doing things if you want to get them started you have to apply a a push in the right easy way you know Ed you should be able to get this club on a real sound Foundation if you go about it the right way you're respected you're enthusiastic you have a good purpose one you really believe in and you have a plan all these are important to cooperation what you need to do is to interest people in working together in cooperating with you sounds easy but will it really work well all around us there are problems that require cooperation take this organization they want my cooperation before I contributed they had to convince me to help in their plan for achieving a worthy goal or take Northbrook that new section of town that's just been built up to get the Cooper of his neighbors Mr Jones could appeal to their interests their desire to lend a helping hand he might Appeal on a concept of mutual heal he might offer assistance in return cooperating in getting them all to work on time but there's a bigger matter that needs cooperation getting that street paved now with so many houses the appeal for cooperation can be on a basis of personal gain each person can gain directly from the paving but individual efforts are seldom affected Jones could convince his neighbors that they can achieve results only by working together by well prepared letters full of facts and logic Jones could appeal to his neighbors to meet together and to speak with a Cooperative voice to the Town Council and if Jones has really been convincing he'll find his neighbors working together with him cooperating to achieve common effort all such Community Action depends on cooperation and cooperation is based on convincing other people that they want to help that really happen I don't know but it could if Mr Jones knew how to get cooperation well I do I think I can get things really started now thanks a lot Mr Baldin goodbye well Ed began using new techniques appealing to different interests of different people he found that Ken could be interested in the service angle doing something for the school he talked about the projectors and how much fun it was to learn to handle them that interested Charles and Ed's enthusiasm was contagious soon he had help from others help in organizing the club I think Ed put away his sledgehammer and the fellows respected Ed even when they didn't agree with his proposition they listened because they respected him as a person he must have worked on Harry two or three times gentle easy pushes to get him started Harry had inertia about this but it could be overcome yes Ed made all kinds of Appeals and before long the gentle pushes began to ease the club into action now that we've discussed the lesson points to look for we'll see the film we're honored today being the first class to use the new student operator service and our audio visual engineer Ken Johnson has volunteered in his study hall time to make possible a smooth effective showing we appreciate his cooperation all right Ken yes we appreciate Ken's cooperation and we appreciate Ed's help in getting it when Ed looked for ways to convince people that they wanted to cooperate he found them and he found that people want to help Ed talked sincerely appealing to various interests he wrote notices that attracted and appealed in the right way a series of gentle pushes at just the right time to really get things started and isn't it odd that now we respect Ed all the more for helping convince The Operators to pull together in the same direction ofces can res look and so it's easy to see that two or mes acting in the same general direction produce the effect of a single Force somewhere between them and much larger than either one alone this is known as the princi it's amazing how often physics applies to cooperation in people