Improving university students interpersonal skills

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The purpose of article is to equip Omar Al-Mukhtar University students with the necessary interpersonal skills to be ready for joining the right labour market with focusing on the faculty of Tourism and Archaeology.

Effective interpersonal skills are difficult to both; students to learn and tutors to teach, requiring development, practice and evaluation in both educational and professional settings.

In professions like tourism marketing, planning and guidance, traditional approaches to teaching these skills have encompassed tourism communication modeling.

This can provide limited opportunity for students to mainly practice and receive feedback on their interpersonal competencies.

And this paper describes the implementation of an experiential small group learning approach from the undergraduate BS tourism program and discusses the outcomes.

Implications for practice are that experientially based small group learning with opportunities for improving self-motivation, evaluation enhancement and feedback which will improve students' confidence and interpersonal skills.

Also consistent experiential learning chances and assessment of this participation in this program is a key to this approach.

Interpersonal skills considered to be hard to learn for new tourism students, and support and mentoring in this domain by lecturers may enhance the transition to the labor market.