Self-management and time management are one of the main management skills. Applying distance education technologies allows to attract practitioners from all over Ukraine. On April 15, 2020 Yuliya Zrada, a blogger from the Lviv city, founder of the online school of comprehensive developed personality through English YOULEARN, conducted an interesting training for students of the first- and second-year of education (speciality “Management", English-speaking groups). Yuliya Zrada provided valuable guidance to students on how to plan their time, how to learn and avoid stress and fatigue. The positive atmosphere, insights and learning games with Kahoot, life hacks from sophomores to freshmen – all in one event.
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
The Head of the Grant Sector of the Department of Strategic Development of the Sumy City Council, Yuliia Tereshchenko, an alumnus of the Department of Management in the specialty "Project Management", held a number of practice-oriented activities for students of SSU.
On April 13, 2020, Yuliia Tereshchenko was invited to conduct a course on "Leadership and Team Management" (lecturer Alona Yevdokymova). She shared her experience in working in teams for the implementation of educational and cultural projects, and spoke about the features of teamwork in grant projects involving foreign investment and effective tools for motivating team members.
On April 14, 2020, for students of the specialty “Project Management”, the alumnus of which was Yuliya Tereshchenko herself, a practical lesson was held on the discipline “Implementation of Project” (lecturer Iuliia Myroshnychenko). In the example of real projects, Yuliia spoke about the features of risk management and the monitoring of projects.
On April 9, 2020, within the framework of the practitioner's involvement in the educational process, a practice-oriented event on the discipline “Management of European Integration Processes” (teacher Myroshnychenko Iu.) was held. Yulia Vlasenko (Specialist of the Sector for Processing Applications and Decision Making at the Department for Social Assistance of Konotop City Council) visited the 4th year students of the specialty "Public Management and Administration". The practical training was devoted to the possibility of using European standards for social protection in national governmental practice.
On April 13, 2020, an interesting webinar was held for the students-bachelors of the PA-71 group of the specialty "Public Management and Administration".
Maxim Petrovich, Chairman of the Expert Council of Employers in the specialty "Public Management and Administration", Deputy Head of the Interregional Directorate of the National Agency of Ukraine for Civil Service in Kharkiv and Sumy region, spoke to the students with a presentation and meaningful comments.
Practically oriented event was organized by the lecturer of the Department of Management, Ph.D. from the state government Demikhov O.I.
The presentation was related to the topic "Civil Service Reform in Ukraine" of the work program of the discipline "Civil Service". In particular, issues of digitization of civil service bodies, features of HR-work, conducting of competitive examination and evaluation of official activity of officials were revealed.
On the 7th of April 2020 the students of the Training Program “Administrative Management” participated in online-lecture with the master of public speaking, Andrey Lyubchenko. The topic “Communication process” became a scene for a trainer who opened his secrets in public speaking, shared his stories, gave advice. The organizer of the event is Valenkevich Larysa, the associated professor of the department.
On 16th 2020 the second session of the Virtual Class in Strategic Management & Leadership will take place. This time the guest lecturer will be Dr Iryna Heiets, Senior Lecturer in Aviation, School of Engineering, Aerospace Engineering and Aviation team (RMIT University, Melbourne) who kindly agreed to share her expertise in the strategy development for aviation. Dr Iryna Heiets is in a field of coopetition strategy since 2014, she is a member of CENA community, had numerous academic training programmes, including the one at University of Montpellier (France). This Fall she was an organizer of webinar "Coopetition for Aviation" in Melbourne.
Maryna Popatenko, once a graduate from the department of management was promoted to the deputy of Minister of Youth and Sport of Ukraine. As it was reported, Maryna will be in charge of the development of policy for youth and national and patriotic training.
More news about this wonderful event are at https://suspilne.media/23845-
Maryna’s interview is here http://nrcu.gov.ua/news.html?
Our students are realizing the best opportunities to invest in their professional future. They have enough time to attend on-line events along with the distance learning process, courses of different educational platforms! For example, such as #Big Money marathon from Yevhen Chernyak.Within two weeks, the students could hear the expert (about 15 representatives of the business-entrepreneurial environment) opinions, advice and forecasts concerning social and economic situation in Ukraine.
The main questions “How to survive the Lockdown?”, “How to save the Team?” and issues concerning the actual business trends for the entrepreneurship development, what to read & how to develop have been discussed by Ye.Chernyak, V. Chmelnitsky, V.Tіgіpko, L.Borodin, A.Fedorov, O.Timofeev, O.Gorokhovsky and other entrepreneurs from different spheres and industries. This marathon has entered the Top 10 live streams on You Tube and has overtaken all news broadcasts.
The new set of session in Strategic Management & Leadership re-launched the coming Thursday. During the next five weeks the set of webinar is planned to be accomplished in the most urgent topics of strategic management and decision-making. The partners of the project are RMIT (Australia), Whitefield Business School (Mauritius) and Sumy State University. The nest session is on 9th of April, starting at 13-25. It’s an opportunity to join the lecture via Google Hangouts Meet - https://meet.google.com/gfo-
The language of the webinars is English.
Professor Medani Bhandari has published a paper about Coronavirus (COVID-19) titled “THE PHOBIA CORONA (COVID 19) ̶ WHAT WE CAN DO”. His work is devoted to the actions that we, as scholars and humans, can do in the coming days. The main problem addressed in the paper is what we can do to stop this pandemic and what price we will have to pay for it.
The full paper can be found at the link.
The learning with the guest lecturers, the experts in their major, is an unavoidable component of the training at Sumy State University. This Saturday, on 4th of April the topic "The Strategy of the Positioning" has been launched in the course for the students of the 4th year of training in Management Studies. Together with the practitioner, the students will form their ideas on the products and their vision on strategy of the positioning. Next Saturday, on 11th of April at 10-30 the second part of the lecture will be provided via Google Hangouts Meet. The quest lecturer is Volodymyr Nykonenko, the head of the department of the marketing, promotion and tourism at Sumy City Council.
There is an opportunity to join the lecture via link: https://meet.google.com/dhu-
- Presentation seminars of SumDU in Zimbabwe and Zambia
- FEM teacher participated in the online part of Sustainability Crash Course for Business Schools and Hubs
- We do not stop, we speed up!
- Online-webinar on Bibliometric Analysis
- The participation in Webinar “UNESCO learning cities respond to COVID-19”
- New experience on cooperation project implementation and lecturing in Ghana
- Practitioners non-stop: real-time pitching!
- 7 steps to make learning more accessible
- The students of our department initiate social projects
- The co-presentation on Symposium in the USA