Social and psychological training as the communicative competence development tool for future agribusiness specialists

Don State Technical University, 1, Gagarin square, 344003, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

^* Corresponding author: chubova@list.ru

Abstract

The paper concentrates on studying the structure of the overall development of socio-psychological training which introduces new forms of dialogue and communication in society and all its spheres including education. It is shown that the socio-psychological training can be used as one of the active methods of developing communication skills in a student group. To detail the program objectives, the authors focus on the development of personality through optimizing forms of interpersonal communication. Furthermore, the authors have identified and justified the necessity of applying techniques aimed at the personality as a whole or its individual components to change them according to the training objectives. Emphasis is put on one of the key issues of organizing and conducting the training, namely the question of how to estimate its efficiency. The characteristic features of feedback, which is carried out in the form of conscious control of the communicative interaction of partners and tracking changes in their own behavior, are specified and described. Based on the study, the authors propose to strengthen practical results of the socio-psychological training through including a feedback questionnaire as an assessment tool for the resultsachieved.