The article deals with the initial formation of professional competencies in the field of managerial decision-making in non-standard situations in the course of professional activity, raises the problem of forming skills and abilities of non-standard thinking in bachelors, determines the conditions and causes of essential changes in bachelor Directors during experimental work. As the main method of diagnostics and testing to determine the initial level of management decision-making, the test method of author's situational tasks was used M.V. Chumakov "On-diagnostics of volitional qualities of the individual", as well as "Orientation test" by Bernard M. Bass. According to the results of the survey, the author revealed an insufficient level of formation of managerial decision-making skills in a non-standard situation for future Directors of theatrical performances. The presence of this problem confirmed the need to implement a specially developed module of pedagogical support for the process of its formation, as well as pedagogical conditions that contribute to its effective functioning. The results of the study may be useful in developing recommendations for teachers of creative universities on the development of professional competencies in the field of decision-making in non-standard situations.