MANAGEMENT TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06207A000200110012-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: March 30, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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DD/S 72-1229
MEMORANDUM FOR: Acting Director of Training
SUBJECT : Management Training
REFERENCE : Memo dtd 22 Mar 72 to ExDir-Comps
fm A-D/TR, same subject (DTR-7294)
You expressed reservations about the responsiveness
of referent memorandum to the Executive Director-Comptroller's comments
on management training. I agree. We need to be very thorough and forth-
coming in examining the questions raised by Mr. Colby as well as our total
approach to the management training curriculum.
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must have some con-
structive ideas about how the matter should be handled in the Agency. How
about suggesting to Mr. Colby the selection of Agency officers noted for their
managerial abilities and convene them as a seminar to get some fresh ideas
about management training and what the Agency can best do about it. It seems
to me that we do not tap our own resources to the extent we should. Outside
experts are fine, but we have some able managers too.
I also suggest you expand your paragraph I.G. sugges-
tion to include specifics; i.e., an outline of subjects, a schedule and recom-
mendation : for speakers.
With an Executive Director -Comptroller who is vitally
interested in this subject and is willing to support a sound and imaginative
program, we do not want to overlook or neglect any opportunity to improve
the management of the Agency. In other words, the current high-level interest
in management training should be just what OTR has been waiting for. Let's
capitalize on it.
Also, I see OTR taking a major part in future organi-
zational development matters. In this Directorate for example, we are just
beginning consideration of this subject in an effort to develop our managerial
talents. OR, with initiative, could and should become closely involved with
organizational development. Ideas, energy, imagination, knowledge and
accessibility are important in establishing OTR primacy in this area.
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SUBJECT: Management Training
So, please take another stab at Mr. Colby's memo-
randum with the view that this is the level of senior interest that we have
been waiting for.
Finally, I do not necessarily agree with you about
sanctions. We need to discuss this thoroughly and have a unified position
before further involving the Executive Director-Comptroller.
Is/
Robert S. Wattles
Assistant Deputy Director
for Support
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