SEMINAR ON SUPERVISOR SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP89-00955R000200270030-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 5, 2012
• Sequence Number: 30
• Publication Date: June 25, 1987
• Content Type: MEMO

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Seminar on Supervisor Skills and Abilities
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25 June 1987
MEMORANDUM FOR: The Director of Training and Education
SUBJECT: Seminar on Supervisor Skills and Abilities
1. Did you know that:
Fully one quarter of the Agency supervisors say that
their ability to select and interview applicants makes
no more than a slight contribution to their
effectiveness as supervisors in their current jobs?
Only about a third say that matching an individual to
the task is a critical skill for a beginning supervisor?
About a third say that their ability to see implications
of world events for their work unit makes no more than a
slight contribution to their effectiveness?
2. These are a few surprising conclusions of an analysis of
1800 responses to a recent survey of Agency supervisors about
some 59 skills and abilities.
Why did we get these results?
Do we want to change these opinions?
If yes, how should we go about changing them?
What role should OTE have in this process?
3. I think the best way to get senior management of the
agency to really focus on these questions is to hold a seminar
with two senior representatives from each of the Directorates
attending. But, before we do that I suggest we hold an internal
OTE seminar with all OTE SISers and a few people from LDD
attending. If we are lucky, we shall develop a discussion paper
for use in the Agency-wide seminar at a later date.
4. If you concur, please designate the people you want to
attend. We can arrange a time and place for the OTE seminar and
we can each participant a copy of this memorandum together with a
list of other apparently anomalous survey results that I am
assembling. STAT
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