On October 15 and 16, the Kyiv-Mohyla Business School hosted the first two-day training module for heads of member business associations within the second phase of the UNDP Project “Strengthening Member Business Associations of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Ukraine” in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of Ukraine and with the support of Switzerland. This project aims to accelerate the development of the IHR sector by strengthening the capacity of member business associations.

“We are here to systematize the practice better,” said Elvira Fayzulina, a kmbs expert. Therefore, the first day of training began with the teamwork of the participants. The two teams identified the difficulties they encountered while working on the projects. This kind of brainstorming helped the participants to get to know each other better, share their own experiences, highlight and discuss typical problems. The expert spoke about the system of building a “problem tree” and a “goal tree” and also offered the audience an alternative - productive - approach to project management. “This approach allows the team to see goals quickly. Not a task, not a destination, not an activity, but the systemic intermediate result that you do together. “

“Who should you be at work?” - Eduard Maltsev, Deputy Dean of kmbs, asked the audience, initiating an active discussion on the personal development of managers, in particular, in the distribution of three transactional roles, the so-called “I-states” (child, father, adult). Leaders also discussed the role of responsibility in management and identified in practical cases in groups the values that leaders create by managerial positions.

“Efficiency, productivity, capacity, the competitiveness of your organizations - is to reach each person individually,” - said Eduard Maltsev. “It’s very exhausting, it requires competence, but if you understand what a person needs and how to synchronize it with the needs of your organization, then you will succeed.”

The second day of the first training module for business leaders in kmbs began with Olena Zhyltsova on personnel management. “Human Capital Management is not about managing people,” explains the expert. - It’s about building and building processes and systems that lay the patterns of behavior you need. This is not about convincing everyone by hand. It’s about creating approaches and systems to make them work. “

Olena Zhyltsova spoke about three approaches to personnel management: algorithmic, structural and contour. Project participants asked for practical advice in various management aspects: team motivation systems (how they want to compare with the capabilities of the BO), how to unite leaders, what recruitment methods to use, and how to adapt new employees. The expert urged participants always to be prepared for the loss of critical roles and, therefore, increase backup staff.

“You should not be afraid to invest your resources in educating people,” says Olena Zhyltsova. - You are growing the market, so in the long run, you will still win. After all, the market will change in 2-3 years, the focus will change, and people will return to you. “

At the end of the first and second school days, the leaders of business associations were waiting for two open evening events within the framework of the Ukrainian-Swiss UNDP Project. On October 15, Bohdan Logvynenko, the founder of Ukraїner, an Executive MBA-36, visited the school and began a series of lectures on “My business is my country.” Mr. Bohdan shared his own experience establishing internal and external communication, volunteering, building a financial system and shared his impressions of studying at kmbs.

“Learning has given us more awareness and understanding of what we are doing. In the process of learning, joint discussions, I catch certain signals, markers for the future,” says Bohdan Logvynenko.

On Saturday, October 16, the Project participants had the opportunity to talk to Konstantin Koshelenko, Deputy Chairman of the State Property Fund and Executive MBA-24 graduate. With his lecture "Transparent privatization - opportunities for business, society and the state", he began another series of evening events called "State and Business". Mr. Konstantin demonstrated the successful cases of the new transparent privatization, told how it affected business and the state in general. "If in 2019 the State Property Fund received 0.5 billion hryvnias, with the new system this figure reached 3 billion hryvnias," says Konstantin Koshelenko.

"There are a lot of insights that need to be implemented," says Olena Korogod, a UNDP Project participant. "I ask questions, the answers to which immediately improve my understanding of our current processes. This is the most significant value of learning."

So we wish the Project participants more and more insights and new ideas that will strengthen their business associations!