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* Page 6...The Portland Observer... March 18,1992 How Do You Motivate A Millionaire? o W:STRN (Part two) - by Bill Barber Last week the coaching staff o f the Portland T rad Blazers was asked about how they m otivated the team. This week it's the players’ turn to tell what motivates them. Q uite a few fans would probably guess the best way to motivate a player w ould be w ith money. For average people w ho w ork a 40 hour week that is usually a rather good incentive. It may not be an effective way to get the atten tion o f the 324 young men who play N B A basketball. A fte r all, i f their salaries are added together, they would make more money than most third world countries. A laa Abdelnaby said his most memorable pep talk was during his senioryearat Duke University. Warmth is not the long s u ito f Head Coach M ike K rzyew ski, who is w ell known for his strictly-business approach to the game. "The last home game o f m y senior year, Coach K ' came up to me to say he really appreciated what I'd done fo r the last fo ur years and that he really loved me. It was kin d o f a warm and touching moment. In my four years at Duke, I had good and bad times, but 1 had never seen the coach in that ligh t before. We ended up losing that game anyway, Alaa laughed looking back. Terry Porter said "Coaches some times have something to say at h a lf time, but i f its a big enough game, the players are 'pumped' already." C liff Robinson's most memorable pep talks were during his A A U League days back in Buffalo, N Y . "W e had a coach who always told us we were the underdogs. He would remind us that we were the players who were not recog nized. He'd talk about how (opponent) Mark Bryant was going to k ill me be cause he was one o f the top forwards in the country. I ended up fouling out but 1 played really w ell that day." Buck W illiam s remembered a time during the latter part o f his New Jersey days when injuries had sent them into the game shorthanded. "The coach told us about a battle that was won by the side that was outnumbered tw o to one. It was very appropriate at the time. We went out and won the ballgame." Clyde Drexler says the most reoc Johnson and Johnson Awards 1.2 Million For Headstart Management Training On February 12 Johnson and John son announced a three-year $1.2 m il lion grant to help Head Start directors across the country manage more effec tive ly the recent rapid expansion o f the highly successful federal program. The grant supports the Head Start Johnson and Johnson Management Fel lows Program, which provides local Head Start directors w ith specially de signed management training at John E. Anderson Graduate School o f Manage ment at the U niversity o f C alifornia at Los Angeles (U .C J-.A .) The program, which was tested last June, aims to sharpen the management s k ills o f local Head Start directors, most o f whom are trained in education or social work, so they can cope success fu lly w ith effort to expand Head Start to many more lower-income pre-school .— • i ; < » * ; V. I- * v . • ■ . • children. The program was created in re sponse to a Johnson and Johnson com missioned study indicating that local HeadStart directors would benefit from management skills training as they seek to expand their operations and at the same time, maintain aconsistently high quality o f services. Johnson and John son and the Head Start Bureau then collaborated w ith U .C .L.A . to create the special educational program, which draws on actual problems faced by the Head Start directors. The p ilo t was launched w ith an intensive tw o week management course fo r 40 Head Start directors at U C LA last June. R alph S. Larsen , Johnson & Johnson’ s Chairman and CEO said, “ It is part, o f Johnson & Johnson’ s com m it ment to improve the health status o f at risk children and their mothers and to increase their awareness and knowledge o f healthy behaviors.” M r. Lausen fu r ther noted that “ Head Start is w idely acknowledged to be one o f the most effective ways to provide early ch ild hood education, health screening, and preventive care services and access to social socials for disadvantaged fam i lies.” Each year during the program, 40 local Head Start directors w ill be se lected to attend an intensive two-week course at U C L A to sharpen their skills in strategic planning, developing and man aging financial and human resources, and program evaluation. As part o f the program, Head Start directors develop a Management Improvement Project to be under taken in the next year to enhance their Head Start program back home. As participants complete the pro gram they become part o f a network o f Head Start directors who w ill help other Head Start staff develop management skills, there by extending the benefits o f their skills training. The 1992 class o f Head Start John son & Johnson Management Fellow w ill attend U C L A from June 21 through July 31. Selection o f participants is competi tive and w ill take place in March. The National Head Start Convention w ill be held on A p ril 30 through May 1 in San Diego. The “ 91 ” Fellows w ill attend a mas ter class and the 92 Fellows w ill be presented at that time. Dad's Oil Service > ? try? Ú J -- heating oils curring theme during his years in the game has been "stand u p ... do the best you can do ... don't q uit ... and give 110% e ffort. I can live w ith e ffo rt everytime, but don't be a quitter. That is what coach Guy Lew is always used to say." Then D rexler said something that may have been T H E answer to the original question o f " How do you m o ti vate a M illionaire?" "Coaches like to appeal to your sense o f pride. Nobody likes to lose." That sounds down to earth logical. It must not be the money, because no one ever tells a story o f an N B A coach calling a time out in the last seconds o f a tight game to offer the star player $100.00 i f he w ill only make a basket to w in the game. "Appeal to their sense o f pride." said Clyde. That must be the answer. Whatever the coaches are saying to the players must be w orking. O r maybe it is what the players a saying amongst themselves at their team meetings. In any event, the Blazer's certainly do a good job o f being motivated consider ing that they have one o f the best records in the N B A . Gliding Into The Olympics? C U L IN A R Y IN S T IT U T E BECOME A CHEF... 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