Presented by Vera Minina and Irina Nikitina.

1. We are from St. Petersburg…

2. 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

3. INTELLECTUAL COMPETITION AS
TECHNOLOGY FOR PROFESSIONAL
TRAINING OF MANAGERS: GSOM
EXPERIENCE
Vera Minina, Irina Nikitina, GSOM,
St. Petersburg State University,
Russia

4. Competence development cycle
Realized
inability
Unrealized Learning Unrealized
competence incentives inability
Realized Realized
competence inability

5. MOTIVATION
for training
Competences Finding new approaches
Development for problems solving

6. What kind of teaching methods and
techniques do managers prefer?
Lectures Rate
Reading
5%
Video and audio 10%
20%
Presentations
30%
Discussions 50%
75%
Practical activity
90%
Sharing Knowledge

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

8. Intellectual competition as
teaching practices:
GSOM experience

9. The best individual presentation (report on the
same issue) for 2 or more participants

10. Debate between two partners based on the
principle "thesis-antithesis"

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

12. Simulation games with varying roles
(consultant team and client team) and case
study

13. Creative thinking - "Kaleidoscope“ technique:
basing on the same pull of the concepts students
give the definition or explanation of the
phenomenon / event

14. Competition for the original interpretation of
well-known concepts

15. Competition for original decision: students
find a new solution of the problem in their
professional field

16. Simulating professional situations by residual
tracks in writings and calculations

17. 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

19. 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

20. 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