Dealing with Intelligence Consumers

Dealing with Intelligence Consumers is a one day course designed to help intelligence community supervisors and senior executives develop more positive and productive relationships with the myriad--and vastly varied--consumers of US intelligence. The course covers the full gamut of intelligence consumers, from the POTUS in the Oval Office to the Company Commander in Afghanistan. It focuses on consumer backgrounds, attitudes, motivations, needs and expectations.  Topics include: consumer requirements versus needs; consumer preconceptions; “politicization”; leaks; policy prescription and other producer-consumer issues. The course content and structured discussions will draw heavily from the Instructor’s own experiences and perceptions gained from 15 years on the White House Staff.  Participants will be expected rigorously contribute their own ideas and perceptions gained from their respective experiences and observations. 

Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants will be better equipped to:

• Understand the motives, mindsets, perspectives and needs of various intelligence consumers
• Foster more positive and productive relationships with their respective consumers
• Produce more effective intelligence that more closely reflects the specific information needs of respective consumers.

Who Should Attend: IC supervisors & senior executives
Length: One (1) day
Instructor(s): Hon. Randy Deitering, former Executive Director, PFIAB

 

*A two (2) day version of this course is available, in which the second day is a workshop, designed to allow participants to apply techniques learned the previous day to current problems on which they are working.  

 

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