MANAGEMENT TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00156R001000080013-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 2, 2003
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: May 17, 1979
• Content Type: MF

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'IN1EMORANDUM FOR: Director of Central Intelligence
VIA: Deputy Director of Central Intelligence
PRCMvi: Clifford D. May, Jr.
Acting Deputy Director for Administration
SUBJECT: Management Training
1. Action Re nested: None; this report is in response
to your concern t at gency managers receive management
training.
2. Background: After your inquiry last October
concerning training of CIA managers, the Office of Training
(OTR) analyzed its management training program and reviewed
it with Professor Zenon Zannetos and with the National
Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) team.
OTR estimates that there are approximatel
persons in CIA with managerial responsibilities: execu-
tives who are supergrades or senior GS-15s. ma. c?le-
level managers at the GS-13/15 range; and first-line
supervisors whose grades vary from GS-07 to GS-15. Develop-
mental training for Agency managers is offered at the execu-
tive level for approximately =officers per year; at the
.ddle-manager level for approximately 0 for the first-
line supervisor there is basic developmental and/or super-
visory training for approximately l per year (Attachment
In addi t nn nTR conducts specialized management training
STAT courses for up to Osupervisors or managers c ach year
Both the NAPA team and Dr. Zannetos came to the
conclusion that the offerings are broad and of high quality.
(Attachment 2).
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SUBJECT. Management Training
Dr. Zannetos, in addition, recommended that action be taken
to separate what he calls "management education"--human
relations and interpersonal skills which all managers need--
from "administrative training"--knowledge of administrative
procedures and processes appropriate to managers at varying
levels in the organization. He also assessed the value of
a crash training program, concluding that such training is
costly and risky. OTR agrees with this conclusion. (A copy
of his findings is contained in Attachment 3.)
The NAPA report shares with Dr. Zannetos the
opinion that selecting individuals for supervisory positions
and ensuring that those who are so selected receive needed
management training is currently the most critical issue in
this area.
3. Staff Position: The present management training
curriculum appears to a meeting the bulk of Agency require-
ments. Planned annual capacity in developmental courses
covers an estimated 10 percent turnover of personnel at the
three managerial levels, as well as an annual catch-up rate
of at least 10 percent. While there was enrollment pressure
in certain programs during the past seven years, nearly
Agency employees attended the internal management
working toement Dr. Zannetos' recommendations to
establish a two-phase program for new supervisors. This
will consist of a one-week course, Fundamentals of
Supervision, which concentrates on i.nterpersonT gills and
a second one-week course, Fundamentals of Administration,
which covers administrative s 1 s nee e y new supervisors
(Attachment 4). The Office of Personnel, as part of its
overall action on the NAPA recommendations, is being supported
training courses listed in Attachment 1. Given current
rates of training, all personnel in first-line, supervisory
and middle management levels and about one-half in the
executive level will have had at least one developmental
training course by the end of FY 1982.
4. Action: The Office of Training is currently
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SUBJECT: Management Training
by OTR to devise more effective procedures for ensuring that
Agency managers receive needed management training as part
of their overall development.
is/ C. D. May
Clifford D. May, Jr.
Attachments:
1 - Developmental Training
2 - Specialized Training
3 - Letter from Dr. Zannetos
4 - Training Bulletin
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CIA Managers
Middle Managers
GS-13/15
STAT 0 officers)
Supervisory Administrative Professional/
Skills Training Skills Training Intelligence
Leadership Senior Seminar.
Seminar (42 per (40 per year)
year)
Program on
Creative
Management (72
per year)
Management Midcareer
Seminar Course
(120 per year) (155 per year)
STAT First-Line Supervisors Fundamentals of Fundamentals of CIA Today and
GS-07/15 II officers) Supervision Administration Tomorrow
(200 per year) (200 per year)
Introduction to
CIA
(780 per year)
- I7 u ^L USE ONLY
Senior
Service
(10 per year)
Education in
Public
Management
(2 per year)
External
Courses
(125 to 150
per year)
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SPECIALIZED TRAINING FOR MANAGERS
STAT
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Population Course
Supervisory Personnel
Financial Management
Courses
Management for Equality
of Opportunity
Performance Evaluation
Workshop
Project Officer in the
Contract Cycle
Supervisory Counseling
Skills and
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Annual Capacity
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350
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Management
Population
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