SUPPORT SCHOOL WEEKLY REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78-06363A000300050012-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 12, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 12
• Publication Date: September 17, 1971
• Content Type: MF

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17 September 1971
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director of Training
SUBJECT : Support School Weekly Report
A. ADMINISTRATIVE TRAINING
1. Field Finance and Logistics
Eleven. students are in the final week of the FF&L Course which
will end 17 September 1971.
2. Experimental Group III
The nine members of Experimental Group III will report for
duty in the Agency on 20 September 1971. Since the CSC was unable to arrange
a suitable schedule for these individuals in their "upward mobility" training
program, the Clerical Training Faculty will begin a training program for them
starting 27 September 1971.
3. Administrative Procedures
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On 14 September Mrs. I was briefed by 1 -1 and
other members of Information Processing/ISD on the new automated system
of verifying operational dispatches for input into the CS records system. This
new information will be incorporated into the Administrative Procedures course.
4. Special Briefing
In the briefing of the two
Officials on 14 September considerable interest was shown 'in' the training of
clerical personnel. The size and arrangement of the classrooms we use was
of particular concern. Because of this interest we suggested a tour of our
clerical training area in Ames Building but, unfortunately, WH Division
disapproved of the proposed tour. Selected unclassified course outlines,
including detailed information on the Managerial Grid, were given to the
officers at their request.
B. MANAGEMENT TRAINING
1. Fundamentals of Supervision and Management
The first presentation of this new five-day course began on 13
September with an enrollment of 33 representing all Directorates and having
a grade range of GS-06 through GS-13. Particular emphasis is being placed
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on participation by the students in a variety of practical exercises. Reaction
at the three-quarter mark seems to be favorable.
2. Advanced Management (Planning)
The course scheduled for the week of 3 October was cancelled
because of insufficient registration. The final tally at the time of the deadline
on 10 September was only 14 and our minimum is 24. The next AM(P) is
scheduled to begin 14 November. As customary, registrants for the cancelled
course will have first opportunity to enroll for the November running.
3. Performance Appraisal Workshop
A special workshop (1 1/2 days) for 21 members of the Foreign
Missile and Space Analysis Center was conducted on 9-10 September. The
FMSAC session was the third in a series of special workshops given on request
by a particular office. The FMSAC Training Officer has advised that his
preliminary survey of critiques indicateSa distinctly favorable reaction by
participants.
4. DELPHI
All arrangements have now been completed for the presentation
of an illustrative exercise on 21 September to participants in the new Senior
Intelligence Seminar. The exercise, comprising three rounds of sessions,
contains nine questions, one of which is composed of seven; parts. The effort
has been coordinated with the Chief of the Seminar and the Director of Training.
C. GENERAL
1. Miss Training Assistant on the Clerical Training
Faculty, is attending Trends & Highlights 13 - 17 September.
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to control the lights in Classroom 207. This should overcome difficulties that
students have been having in seeing the letters on the back of the Student
Responder Units after the overhead fluorescent lights are turned off while the
slide projector is in use.
3. On the afternoon of 10 September 1971 Mr.
visited the Civil Service Commission Training Center at Thomas Circle in
Washington, D. C. This was the occasion of an Open House held at the Center.
Mr. F- I visited the classrooms and heard descriptions
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of the programs to be offered. The Commission has installed an impressive
array of training equipment such as video tape, individual A. B. Dick monitors,
and a Norelco tape deck with individual listening stations. These will be used
in classes concerned with both clerical skills and office practices The training
rooms are carpeted and have acoustical tile as well as attractive, colorful
furniture and harmonizing drapes.
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4. It is of interest to note that the "lean years" seem to be having an
impact on outside management consultants.
Agency. The course, one week in length, carries a price tag of $150. 00 per
student which covers the cost of classrooms, software, and instruction. The
substance of the program appears to be little different from that which the
called the Support School recently with an en usias is
"sell" on a management training design his company would like to offer the
is unlikely that we can undertake this type of external training under the
present general conditions of austerity.
Management Training Faculty offers in its courses. We told hat it
Chief, Support School, TR
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