GROW Training as an Effort to Improve the Adaptive Performance of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia

Abstract

Community Service (PkM) carried out by the Psychology Study Program Lecturer is an International PkM for 1 semester (Odd FY 2023/2024). This PkM has the theme "Empowering Indonesian Migrant Workers (PMI) in Malaysian Placement Countries to Increase Capacity and Prepare for Independence". Then the servants were interested in carrying out service with the title "GROW Training as an Effort to Improve the Adaptive Performance of Indonesian Migrant Workers in Malaysia". PMI is an Indonesian worker who works abroad legally. On this occasion, the service carried out PkM for PMI for work placements in Malaysia. Implementation of PkM is carried out by service members online using zoom meetings. Where the devotees are in Indonesia and the participants are at the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia Kuala Lumpur Malaysia. The implementation of the odd semester PkM consists of several stages, namely the first is the preparation stage where the stage is exploring cooperation with the Indonesian Embassy and making a PkM design for PMI, the second is the implementation stage which is carried out over 3 days at different times and using online and offline methods, and the third is the evaluation stage as well as publication of reports and proceedings or International PkM journals. At the implementation stage, service providers have the opportunity to deliver material in room A on November 11 2023 from 10.00 WIB to 12.00 WIB. There were 25 participants who were present at the Indonesian Embassy during PkM and all of them were female, while those who attended online were approximately 70 people. There are several sub-materials presented, namely videos about adaptability, understanding adaptive performance, dimensions of adaptive performance, an overview of GROW model training (Setting Goals, Understanding Reality, Exploring Options, Doing Will/What Next), and exercises to make GROW based on one's condition.