Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On November 10, 2021, the students of the 1st year students of the Master’s program in Project Management had an excellent opportunity to meet and communicate with a graduate of the Department (education program “Project Management”) Galyna Nereta – the General Director of the private enterprise “Shopping Mall “Kiev”

The meeting took place within the framework of the study of the course “Planning of project actions” (lecturer Alona Yevdokymova).

Galina has experience in implementing a large-scale project to revitalize an enterprise (Poltava city).

Students had the opportunity to ask the questions as follows:

– What the project is about?

– How did the idea of such a project appear?

– What was the motivation for its implementation?

– What is the project budget and funding sources?

– How the teamwork is structured?

– Whether there were the persons-demotivators in team and how to keep in touch with them?

– etc.

Within the "International Management" course which is provided by Professor Mesut Çiçek from Washington State University for our students, on the 10th of November Dr. Hanna Shvindina became a guest lecturer. She shared her knowledge and expertise on being abroad on academic exchange. And she performed research in Cultural peculiarities of communications in different countries. The organizational structures of global corporations are becoming increasingly complex due to the opening of branches around the world, and if you know certain features of cultures, socio-political factors of change, you can develop a successful strategy. We wrote more about this class earlier here.

On October 22, 2021, 1st and 2nd year students of the specialty "Project Management" had an excellent opportunity to talk about participatory projects with the secretary of the Coordinating Council for the State Budget of SСTС Andrey Mosha.

During the meeting, we discussed in detail the procedure for selecting and evaluating project applications, the formation of project budgets, the interaction of project participants at all stages of the project, and much more.

The meeting with the practitioner took place within the framework of the study of the disciplines "Planning of project actions" (teacher Alona Yevdokymova) and "Communication management in projects" (teacher Karina Taranyuk).

Thanks to Mr. Andrey for a productive meeting!

On October 21st, Tetyana Mayboroda, the lecturer of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, and her students presented group project “Conflicts, International Business & International Leadership” in the frame of COIL module with Professor Dipra Jha, Washington State University. Together with her 3 students Maryna Medvedieva (Ukraine), Faith Emmanuel (Nigeria), Agyemang Adusei (Ghana) was held an informative session on countries' outstanding conflict analyses in Ukraine, Ghana & Nigeria, their peculiarities & causes, their impact on economy & international business, and also special attention was paid to leadership aspect in the conflicts. “Orange Revolution in Ukraine”, “Chieftaincy Conflicts in Ghana” & “Police Brutality in Nigeria” – all this is about society in XXI century. The presentation aroused great interest from the peers from other countries and universities, students and lecturers shared their impressions and noted the similar and unique features of the considered conflicts between the countries.

On October 18, a lecture for masters of Administrative Management, within the discipline "State Control", was held by the head of the State Inspectorate for Architecture and Urban Planning in the Sumy region Malonkina Inna Sergeevna. The speaker spoke about the functions of the newly established institution in the field of construction control and supervision. She also shared with students her own experience of participating in the competition for the position of civil servant. It is nice that Ms. Inna is a graduate of the Department of Management! Thank you for an interesting discussion! We are proud of our graduates and wish them further career growth and self-realization!

On October 23-24, a 2-day on-line training to increase their own productivity on the topic "Secrets of self-management" was held for residents and guests of the city. The training was organized by the Lifelong Learning Center.

The training was conducted as a solution to cases, discussions and interactives. Participants identified the most significant chronophages and proposed methods to combat them, estimated the cost of own time, got acquainted with the methods of time rationalization and features of the use of kairos, learned to form Smart-goals and set priorities, distinguish important cases from minor ones according to the Eisenhower matrix, learned to organize your day properly, work effectively with information achieve the goals and cope with stress.

On October 21, a practice-oriented event, a lecture on “Different types of CRM-systems and their impact on management decisions, planning and control” was held at Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management. The class was conducted by Dmytro Yuriyovych Taruta, Head of the Sales Department of the leading logistics services company in Ukraine.

The event was held for 2nd year students majoring in 281 “Public Management and Administration” (educational program “Public Management and Administration”) and 073 “Management” (educational program “Management”) within the discipline “Methods of Management Decision Making” (lecturer Bondar T.V.).

19.10.21р. Roman Trepalin, Head of the Competitive Bidding Department of the Sumy City Council, was invited to our classes.

During the online lecture, bachelors of the 3rd year of full-time and part-time forms of education in the specialty "Public Administration" (talked to a specialist of Sumy City Council.

Roman Trepalin in an interesting way, on the examples of real cases, told students about the peculiarities of public procurement according to modern legislation, emphasized the procedures for monitoring the conduct of bidding.

Students had the opportunity to ask questions to our expert. There was a great discussion.

The Department of Management thanks Mr. Roman, as a representative of our leading employer (Sumy City Council), for the time and desire to work with Sumy State University.

On October 18-20, 2021, a Microsoft Student Summit was held, which was attended by Svitlana Kolosok together with students of the УП.м-11 group as part of practice-oriented classes on the courses "Project Management" and "Information Systems in Project Management" under the educational program "Project Management."

On each day of the summit, Microsoft practitioners shared their experience with tech tools and provided career and employment advice. Also, at the student summit, it was possible to consolidate skills, obtain materials for certification on Microsoft security, compliance, and identity, and prepare to ace the Azure Data and Power Platform exams.

One of the best practices introduced at Sumy State University at our institute together with American universities - first the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and then the Washington State University - is COIL, Collaborative Online Learning, or Global Virtual Classes.

Washington State University Carson College of Business Dividend magazine has featured the globally networked learning collaboration for the International Relations & Global Leadership class in its latest issue. 

We would like to remind our readers that this project was initiated by Professor Dipra Jha (Washington State University) and Professor Hanna Shvindina (Sumy State University), and since this year, the co-coordinator of COIL is Tetyana Mayboroda, Ph.D. This project involved several cohorts of students majoring in Management, International Economic Relations, and other economic fields, and more and more educators are joining the virtual exchange.

On October 18, third-year students majoring in Management as part of the study of the discipline "Investment Management" (group ЕН-93) on "Research and Investment Planning" (teacher - Iuliia Myroshnychenko) attended a webinar on the series "Laws of Effective Business". The event's speaker is Kyrylo Kunitsky, the founder of the international educational and consulting company Business Designer. The webinar discussed the practical aspects of building effective financial management in the company. In particular, the speaker explained how to balance revenue generation and maintenance of the operating process, build a management system for the company, and scale it with investment. The event organiser paid special attention to the analysis of modern business tools to establish the main functions of management and control its effectiveness. The competencies gained at the online event will help students to effectively manage their business and organize profitable investment activities in the future.

  1. Students attended a public procurement webinar
  2. Participation in the round table “Ukraine 4.0. Foresight study of socio-economic changes in the labor market and forecasting of professional qualifications with digital skills »
  3. Our teachers performed at the festival of non-formal education "Art to learn together"
  4. SumDU teachers visited Estonia within the framework of the ERASMUS+ academic mobility program
  5. New COIL module with Washington State University starts for students of the Management programme
  6. The International Conference in Poland with the participation of our team!
  7. An additional admission to study
  8. International SCR-oriented Conference with the participation of our team members
  9. Visit of students to the Sumy local center for free secondary legal aid
  10. Practice-oriented class at the Department of City Strategic Development of Sumy City Council
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