WEEKLY SUMMARY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00017A000100110005-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2001
• Sequence Number: 5
• Publication Date: April 3, 1956
• Content Type: MEMO

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DDA Memo, 4 Apr -77
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INTRO TION
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BACKGIOIIND OF TIM CONFERElfC
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2 March.
Some months ago, OTR was asked by OR.R to consider the
development of an intensive internally conducted management
training course for key senior officials of ORR. A program was
gradually developed by the two offices which appeared to AD/RI to
meet the requirement and warrant the expenditure of the time of
the officials concerned. During the discussions, it became clear
that considerable benefit would be gained by holding the conference
away from lisedquarters, so that the participants could work inten-
sively without distraction, and at the same time get to know each
other bettor than they could in the usual cies room situation.
therefore offered to hold the conference
PARTICIPATION
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In attendance were the AD/RR? and iw.lv. carefully selected
senior supervisory officials of ORR. At the request of the DD/l,
the Office of Scientific Intelligence and the Office of Central Refer-
ence each enrolled One senior observer-participant. The leader of
Training Program Minit
the conference was Chief of the Management
PURPOSE
The conference was carefully desi nod to provid, a stimulus
to Individual and collective thinking about management problems and
responsibilities, particularly as they related to the loog.term pro-
ductive potential of the Offtce.
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ere provided in s4ce with about 600 pages of
general background reading. Certain bowie theory was presented
in lecture form, but rot of the time was given over to discussion
of selected casts and specific supervisory problems. A sustained
effort went into the writing by committees of situation estimates on
specific phases of inanagement in OUR.
In general, the instructional approach to provide a
in overt management doctrine for constructive criticism of t
respective jobs which the participants are doIng to keep before the
group a broad picture of management functions as a consistent, com-
prehensible pattern of responsibilities; to encourage them within this
framework, to identify and analyas some of their fundamental, recur-
ring problems; and, once this problem.solving approach to management
problems had been *stabile/led, to give the conferees full freedom to
offer, es.changs, and criticise ideas.
COMMENTS Or THE INSTRUCTOR
'This was an extremely weflmattvated,
group of men. They had been cautioned concerning cc
risks, among thorn taking the conference for a week's
other hand dealing in destructive personal criticism.
start they did not fight the frame of reference which had born etb-
linked for the conference, but took full advantage 0 the opportunity
It offered to deal analytically and honestly with their problems on the
job. The lectures typically turned into discussions, and discussions
invariably ran longer than the allotted time. This was not entirely
unexpected, and other items were dropped out of the schedule to make
up time. The group worked hard and late, from tan to fifteen how's
a day. An atmosphere of cheerfulness and group feeling was eviden-
ced by good humor, and a total absence of personal bickering
TRUCT
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easenable estimate that cornwttcation and coo
op three echelons offacilitated in a g
a long time to come. The major results will have to be assessed
he A/D, however, over a period of several months. The program
was aimed to provide a vehicle of communication for the management
elements of the Office, and to make these elements more cohesive
and more acutely conscious of their joint responsibilities. The most
meaningful evidence of accomplishment in these rsepects will come
only through actual management performance. '
The major 032411 10n in the agenda of this conference was the
object of interpersonal relation*, speciftcally those between the
supervisor and the analyst. There is not time in a ons.week course
to cover this subject adequately, and it was slighted in order to allow
time to deal with ether matters (particularly an orderly pattern of
management functions and the relationships of Branch, Division and
Area personnel with their peers and. superiors) with which the con-
ference was inherently better prepared to deal.
COMM N'S OF AD/RR
Dr. Guam hes termed the conference a urasoondiag success."
and has further stated, Since I was one of these present. I can say
with all con/ideate that everyone gained a great deal from this one
week of intensive training, that areas where supervision should be
improved were identified, and that distinct advantages will accrue
to the Office and to the individuals concerned. ' He foresees ad.
dftianal requirements from ORR for specialised management courses
for selected supervisory personnel.
COMMICHTS OF AD/TR.
The succeseftd staging of this training particular
objective seems to me a significant accomplishment, d one which
I. likely to generate additional requests. The Office of Scientific
Intelligence has already asked for a similar program in May. The
framework of the ORR Conference CALM be used with appropriate
triedificatione, to accommodate the requirements of other compost*
and has the potential for considerable kenellt to the Ageacy as a whole.
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