Dimas: Jurnal Pemikiran Agama untuk Pemberdayaan
Vol. 25 No. 1 (2025)

Soft Skills Training to Become Professionals for Students at Samakisast Wittaya School in Sadao, Thailand

Mainata, Dedy (Unknown)
Darmawati (Unknown)
Yanti, Dharma (Unknown)
Wibowo, Arista (Unknown)
Siregar, Shamil Hekmatyar (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 May 2025

Abstract

This community service program was conducted at Samakisast Wittaya School, Sadao, Thailand, to address the lack of students’ interpersonal readiness for higher education and employment. The activity aimed to strengthen soft skills such as professional demeanor, communication, teamwork, and courteous speech. Using participatory action research integrated with community-based research, service-learning, and asset-based community development, the one-day program engaged sixty students through tutorials and rotating practice stations focusing on appearance, posture, handshake protocol, and polite expressions. The results showed high participation, improved understanding of the importance of soft skills, and observable behavioral enhancement during coached demonstrations. Tangible outputs included behavioral rubrics and photo documentation for continued use. The program concludes that a participatory, low-cost, and asset-based model effectively embeds soft-skills training into school routines and can serve as a foundation for sustained teacher-led reinforcement and future quantitative evaluation.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

dimas

Publisher

Subject

Economics, Econometrics & Finance Education Environmental Science Social Sciences Other

Description

Dimas: Jurnal Pemikiran Agama untuk Pemberdayaan is a social-religious research journal published by Institute for Research and Community Services (LP2M), UIN Walisongo Semarang. The focus of this journal is to disseminate research results based on community services, increasing the capacity of ...