THE ART OF DICTATION...

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP91-00452R000100170043-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 16, 2006
• Sequence Number: 43
• Publication Date: September 9, 1999
• Content Type: MISC

NOMINATION PROCEDURES:
Federal Submit a Standard Form 170 for each. nominee
State and Local
Submit a letter from an authorized official
including the following information:
-title and dates of the course
-name, address, position title, and brief
description of the nominee's duties
-telephone number and address of office to
which confirmation notice should be sent
-billing address
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL TMANAGEMMENT
SUPERVISORY AND COMMUNICATIONS
TRAINING CENTER - WED
P O BOX 7230
WASHINGTON, DC 20044
Thomas Circle Training
Center
1121 Vermont Avenue, 141.
Washington, DC
Telephone: [phone]
The office of Personnel Management makes every practical
effort to assure that its training programs are readily
accessible to handicapped employees. Nominating offi-
cials should contact the training center in advance of
nomination to discuss any special provisions needed to
accommodate a handicapped nominee.
If an agency finds it has enough participants to
comprise a class and has facilities for training,
arrangements can be made to have a course conducted
on-site at a reduced fee. For further information,
contact our office at the above telephone number.
WDS 25EE (10-79)
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Trainirig course presented by
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FY 1980
January 7-10
March 3-6
The
Art of
Dictation...
Supervisory and Communications Training Center
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A smooth flow of communication means money, time,
and energy saved--and greater office productivity.
Dictation is the most efficient way of getting
information into the communications cycle, and
good dictation techniques are essential whether
your office uses machine or shorthand dictation.
THE ART OF DICTATION is designed to give word
originators the skills they need to dictate more
efficiently and more effectively.
At the end of the workshop, participants will be
able to.:
o use principles of good office dictation
to communicate .facts, ideas, instructions,
etc.
o plan and organize predictation notes
o increase office productivity by at least
50 percent through proper dictation
techniques
o recognize the role of machine dictation
in today's word processing systems
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by the class. Participants are encouraged to
being to the class'their own dictation materials
to'provide realistic application of the skill.
The prorated cost is $200 per person. Agencies will
be billed for all acce ed nominee "unless formal
cancellations are received by the cancellation dead-
line. Substitution of eligible participants may be
made up to the beginning of the workshop.
The workshop is conducted during 4 consecutive half-
day sessions.
Federal, State, and local government employees are
eligible to attend.
Nomination Deadline: December 10, 1979
i$-
ination Deadline: February 4, 1980
Course Approach
Major concepts will be presented through short
lectures, practical exercises, audio-visual
presentations, and group participation. Emphasis
will be on the techniques involved in dictating,
and participants will have "hands on" experience
with dictation equipment.
The workshop will provide individualized consul-
tation periods with the instructor, as well as
feedback analysis of each participant's dictation
May 5-8, 1980
June 2-5, 1980
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