Intellectual competition as technology for professional training of managers the gsom experience

We are from St. Petersburg…

Graduate School of Management (GSOM) - established in 2007

within the priority national project "Education" at the Faculty of

Management (Open in 1993)

•11 educational programs (including MBA, EMBA)

•5 research centers

•7 departments

•66 teachers, selected on a competitive basis

•50 teachers from other departments of SPSU

•4000 Graduates

INTELLECTUAL COMPETITION AS

TECHNOLOGY FOR PROFESSIONAL

TRAINING OF MANAGERS: GSOM

EXPERIENCE

Vera Minina, Irina Nikitina, GSOM,

St. Petersburg State University,

Russia

Competence development cycle

Realized inability

Unrealizedinability

Realizedinability

Realized competence

Unrealizedcompetence

Learning incentives

MOTIVATION for training

Competences Development

Finding new approaches for problems solving

Sharing Knowledge

5%

10%

20%

30%

50%

75%

90%

Rate

What kind of teaching methods and

techniques do managers prefer?

Lectures

Practical activity

Reading

Discussions

Video and audio

Presentations

Intellectual competition

Intellectual competition is a teaching activity which develops student’s apprehension and invokes their creativity

Intellectual competition as

teaching practices:

GSOM experience

The best individual presentation (report on the

same issue) for 2 or more participants

Debate between two partners based on the

principle "thesis-antithesis"

Panel discussion - who will win: team “pro” or

team “contra”

Simulation games with varying roles

(consultant team and client team) and case

study

Creative thinking - "Kaleidoscope“ technique:

basing on the same pull of the concepts students

give the definition or explanation of the

phenomenon / event

Competition for the original interpretation of

well-known concepts

Competition for original decision: students

find a new solution of the problem in their

professional field

Simulating professional situations by residual

tracks in writings and calculations

Organizing conferences or round table

discussions on the specific topic

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1 - Simulation games with varying roles (consultant team and client team) and case study

2 - Panel discussion - who will win: team “pro” or team “contra”

9 - Organizing conferences or round table discussions on the specific topic

What are the outcomes from intellectual

competition implementation?

Intellectual competition gives students the opportunity to:– demonstrate their talent,

– be creative,

– speak out on the issue,

– bring serious arguments in the discussion

– take part in finding solutions to the most pressing concerns of modern society

Thank you!

Questions, comments…

Vera Minina, professor, head of the Department

of OB&HRM; minina@som.pu.ru

Irina Nikitina, professor of the Department of

OB&HRM; sizn@mail.ru