FOR YOUR DDS MEETING SOME CUT ISSUES RE THE SENIOR SEMINAR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00308A000100030019-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 13, 2000
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 7, 1972
• Content Type: MF

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t E OWIDGTi FOR: Acting Deputy Director fox- Support
SUBJECT ; For your DAs Meeting
Some Cut Issues re the Senior Seminar
1. Do our senior officers -- good GS-15'a and supergrades -
rea114 need trainin;? Does participation in a good train
iri program
help a senior officer do his job getter, or help him when he takes on
a more responsible ,-lob, and this improve the capability and effective-
ness of the Agency? For what nuneY,er of our officers, CS-15-and ups do
these conditions apply?
2. Does the Senior Seminar, based on the experience of two run-
nin gs , cut the mustard?
3. If a decision 13 made to continue the Senior Seminar, we must
keep trying to keep it a high germ i ty program and work constantly to
improve it - thus making it snore valuable to the Agency.
a. It must be kept vi?orouss and current. Twice a year Is
ideal. Once a year means the operators of the Seminar forget the
lessons learned before the next rus.:rting a year away.
b. OT& will have problervs keeping a staff together to run it
only once a year.
c. The Senior Seminar in the Agency's principal Executive
Development training program. The Seminar is a good safety valve to
show we are in step with administration policy in the area. Forty
officers a year - out of an A enc.y population of GS-15's and super-
grades - is not a heavy drain.
d. The Senior Seminar, as the cap-stone of our pyramid, com-
pletes the training cycle from Rbu to Midcereer to Senior responsibility.
4. Proposal; A fall back position - If the Senior Seminar in
not approved for two runnings annually.
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