Business and Government

The following link provides client comments that outline the results of improving organisational leadership and culture. These results indicate positive impacts on profitability, performance, productivity, reduction in staff attrition and turnover and safety.

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Education and Training

There is now widespread recognition in the education community that raising self-esteem is one of the keys to increasing academic achievement.
At the same time, the pressure to raise academic standards makes it vital that the emotional intelligence and coping skills of pupils are developed alongside their scholastic achievement.
It’s now more important than ever to help students manage their own behaviour and adopt values that support good teaching.
Young people are faced with particularly difficult decisions about their future. One of the key factors which will influence these decisions is their level of self-esteem, and their expectations of what is possible for them. In order to do this schools need to provide young people with techniques to help them think more effectively, recognise the value of setting goals and cope with the pressures they are under.
The Pacific Institute has developed programs built on the best academic research from the field of cognitive psychology and on studies of the way that high performers learn and think. We have translated this information into a set of principles that help young people to see that the beliefs they hold about themselves as learners have a profound effect on how much of their potential they will eventually realise. It helps them see that they have choices, and that they can take more control and can cause good things to happen in their lives if they want to.

The programs are:

 Breakthrough To Excellence - 16-21 year olds
 Steps To Excellence For Personal Success
 Investment In Excellence - Teachers

For any new project as in an Education District or consortium of schools, Pacific Institute Project Directors lead pilot programs and then train local facilitators. Programs are then delivered by teachers, support staff, or community workers who have been trained as facilitators, and who have already experienced The Pacific Institute’s education.

Their regular contact with the young people allows them to bring the concepts of the program to life using issues that are current for them in their personal lives, at school, and in the community.
Using activity-based exercises, Breakthrough creates openings for personal reflection and in-depth discussions, helping young people to discover and change some of the old attitudes that have been affecting their performance.
In this way the District or consortium has ownership of the project and is able to customise the program to local needs. The Pacific Institute continues to provide on-going support for the project, working with facilitators to ensure high quality delivery of the education and develop procedures for rigorous evaluation of impact.

The following client comments outline the impact that improving organisational leadership and culture have on staff effectiveness and morale, student learning, achievement and attainment and parental and community involvement.

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Community

The Pacific Institute remains at the leading edge, internationally, of assisting individuals,
organisations and communities to develop their thinking skills. Starting as a methodology for delivering high performance and cultural change in the corporate sector, institutions and sports, through the development of its portfolio, the Institute now contributes to the major
developments in education, learning and regeneration in communities.

Our interventions focus on issues of self-esteem, self-efficacy, accountability and goal setting. They are, therefore, applied in the areas of core skills, motivation, the development of personal aspirations and achievement.

The interventions in The Pacific Institute’s portfolio are currently applied throughout the world in communities with people of all ages and huge variety of contexts,
including communities, institutions, regeneration, parents in education and health.

Although organisations and communities often develop their own strategies and direction for the application of our interventions, The Pacific Institute assists in the development of the most appropriate and effective implementation of our materials and information to ensure that there is an alignment of objectives and strategic direction.

The co-responsibility between The Pacific Institute and Community Leaders will ensure that our information provides significant impact within the following broad areas:
• Employability skills and vocational training
• Community learning with teaching staff, students and parents
• Promoting positive mental well-being with individuals with specific issues in health, poor
quality life-styles
• Youth at risk
• Long term unemployed
• Prisoners and children and partners of prisoners
• Community influencers and multi-agency groups in the development of shared strategies and enhanced inter-agency action enabling successful communities, people & organisations with high aspirations and self belief
• Building robust organisations in business creation, social economy organisations and small
businesses and tourism
• Positive ageing

The Pacific Institute assists organisations and neighbourhoods to put their people at the heart of the change process and growth by investing in the person themselves and not just their skills or their physical environment.

INTEGRATION WITH OTHER SERVICES
Firstly, the flexibility in the delivery options enable the interventions to integrate seamlessly with other strategies for dealing with the significant human and quality of life issues with which people are confronted.
The material can be used whenever there is a need to introduce a ‘core skills’ or self-efficacy / motivational element. This may be in vocational or learning programs, employability, health or capacity building.

More significantly, it may be in scenarios where the community group have
problems around low self-esteem or lack of direction. This has been very significant in our work with prison populations and may be appropriate in proposals for tackling key community including drugs-related issues, long term unemployment and youth at risk and recidivism.

It supports preventative work by promoting life-style choices and accountability.

Secondly, the training of Facilitators within key community groups is critical in ensuring a rounded and balanced approach that enables integration with advocacy services, and can provide relevant and professional guidance and coaching by experienced advocates.

Pacific Institute interventions are being used successfully in communities to achieve the following outcomes:
• Increased levels of self esteem
• Increased levels of educational achievement
• Increased retention rates of students beyond the age of 16 years
• Enhanced employability of young adults
• Increased levels of social inclusion for the disadvantaged
• Development of personal capacity to allow young people and their parents to take an active
role in shaping their futures
• Teenagers, families and children have developed an attitude of aspirational learning
• Have learnt to break the cycle of low ambition
• Increased social inclusion in key areas of the community
• Have brought together key community groups with a common vocabulary and vision
• Developed a willingness to change
• Reduce crime
• Increase and attract business
• Reduce unemployment
• Build community self esteem
• Increase the sense of pride in work carried out by the council
• Increase respect for the customer and each other
• Helping council staff to become option thinkers as opposed to problem identifiers
• Assist people to deal with challenges associated with constant and rapid change
• Increasing the level of service provided to the community
• Build sound relationships within the council and with external partners
• Share tools and techniques for:
- Dealing with change
- Maximising opportunities
- Setting bigger and clearer goals
• Empower people and include their contributions, ideas and creativity
• Increased economic cohesion
• Developing a ‘Learning Community’
• Educate deprived parents

The following client comments outline the impact that successful communities have on their people and their organisations.

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