CIA Workforce – Unclassified Version of March 6, 2015 Message of CIA Director John Brennan

Overall Plan and Initial Steps

Theme One:  Invest in our people by enhancing our talent and leadership development. We must make it easier for our officers to acquire new skills, to strengthen their leadership abilities, and to deepen their distinctive tradecrafts while also broadening their understanding of CIA, the intelligence profession, and the national security mission. This was the number one issue raised by the workforce to the Study Group and is foundational to all other initiatives. Building on the Agency’s Strategic Direction, we are making the following changes to the ways in which we are organized for, practice, and think about talent development:

• Establish a new Talent Development Center of Excellence to bring under one roof our efforts to improve the recruitment, performance management, training, and leadership development of our diverse workforce.
• Place all training under CIA University and create more opportunities for learning across disciplines to help us grow well-rounded intelligence officers. CIA University will be headed by a chancellor with the mandate to educate and train officers able to function in integrated mission environments and to develop into the next generation of Agency leaders.
• Create more systematic methods to better develop leaders and to integrate our activities across the Agency, starting with a plan to make multi-disciplinary exposure and experience the “new normal” at CIA.
• Reset our expectations for leaders at all levels, stressing the importance of developing and empowering our people, ensuring accountability, being committed to continuous improvement, and building a culture in which we are all intelligence officers first, regardless of our Directorate, position, or area of expertise.

Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the whole story at  Unclassified Version of March 6, 2015 Message to the Workforce from CIA Director John Brennan: Our Agency’s Blueprint for the Future — Central Intelligence Agency.