TRENDS IN THE TRAINING OF MODERN LEADERS
The purpose of the study is to consider the problems and opportunities for providing business with specialists and managers with professional competencies that correspond to the level of the modern economy and are adequate to the current situation. The article identifies the main trends of changes in the business environment, including the instability of the external environment, the need for constant changes, the rapidity of these changes, digitalization, which requires special competencies from employees. Some concepts of continuous education are analyzed. It is proposed to solve the problem of the discrepancy between professional competencies and the lack of desire for professional and personal development among employees by building a system of continuous education. The methodological basis for the analysis, generalization and conclusions was the research of foreign and Russian scientists and practitioners in the field of management theory, lifelong education. The article summarizes some of the results of studying the readiness of young people for additional professional education in the field of digitalization, obtained in the course of a study conducted at the State University of Management.