How Leadership Opportunities Shape Pacific Youth: An Essay

This essay argues that providing Pacific youth with leadership opportunities is crucial for their development into responsible adults. It begins by highlighting the importance of youth in nation-building and the benefits of leadership skill development. The essay identifies problems faced by young leaders, such as inexperience, impatience, and delegation issues, and proposes solutions like welcoming change, dedicating effort, focusing on results, and setting stretch goals. It then delves into the specific context of Pacific youth, discussing frameworks for development, vulnerabilities, discrimination, and the influence of global economic crises and social media. The essay emphasizes the importance of addressing issues like disabilities and lack of opportunities, the impact of Western culture, and the need for effective policies to encourage youth involvement. It concludes by re-iterating the importance of leadership opportunities for the youth and their potential to bring positive change in the society.

Essay

Providing Pacific youth with leadership opportunities can help them grow into responsible
adults
INTRODUCTION
a) General information:
Youth plays an important role in building nation. Youth leadership provides them to
opportunity to develop skills and lead positions. It uses human rights and approaches like social
protection to enhance basic services and chances for young people. Young generation lives
mostly in developing countries and always focuses on following trends of world instead of
developing their own lives (Barbarin, 2015). They can be encouraged to lead into better life and
act as responsible adults by developing leadership skills.
b)Thesis statement:
This essay completely argue that young generation have to focus more on their life along with
enjoying the opportunities and comfort of the world. Giving leadership opportunities to young
generation will help in changing the society.
c)Plan
Problems: The section describes problems which are faced by young generation like delegation,
impatience, inexperience etc.
Solutions: According to above problems, it is recommended that youngsters can solve their
problems by welcoming change, dedicating more to improve themselves, focusing on results and
framing stretch goals.
Body of the essay
Main idea of conducting this essay is to highlight the issues which are faced while
converting youths in responsible adults. Pacific youth development framework consists of four
frameworks which are centred development sectors like education, environment, government,
health and governance. These policies are well developed and focused by young generation. The
scholars have found that youngsters have actively accessed these programs but they still lack
command over these services due to several vulnerabilities and discrimination (Camino, 2010).
These situations have seemed to be more critical and difficult for them as pressure from global
economic crises has increased. This has adversely affected young people specially women,
young people who have dropped their studies and are not yet employed.

Another major issue is that young generation of different countries and territories are
distracting from their aims and objectives and therefore they are not able to focus on leadership
opportunities to make them as responsible citizen of the country (Edelman and et.al., 2014).
According to the state of Pacific youth report, very little changes are seen among youngsters.
Some of them have focused on accessing the health and education services but major of them are
not able to access these services properly. The main aim of gathering people of different
countries and territories is to determine the problems in service delivery to provide information
to national administration they have to make effective plans which helps youngsters to focus
more on their objectives and goals.
According to Peckham,
Disabilities and lack of opportunities is another major issue which discourages
youngsters and forces them to take opportunities of the life. Youngsters which are disable and
physically handicap always face discrimination in every field that is in education, health and job
sector. They are denied by the people to access the opportunities and services which are made for
physically fit people. For example, people which are disabled are discarded and ignored by well
developed companies and other firms. They are not treated properly and discriminated at every
stage. According to Groce, (2015), disable people have also full rights to access health and
eduction, employment services without any depression and discrimination. They have also right
to access all the opportunities which are made for healthy people.
Another important issue in misleading young generation is western culture and bas effect
of social media websites. Traditional values and culture are disappearing very rapidly which has
distracted them to lead the nation and become responsible citizen (Hallett and et.al., 2015).
Youngsters are more focusing in developing themselves as another personality by following new
and irrelevant trends of other countries. They are not involving themselves in making important
decisions of the country which are adversely affecting their lives. For example, youngsters are
not involving government voting system and development policies due to which political parties
are making the decisions by their own which is directly affecting lives of youngsters and
common people (Kram and Isabella, 2013). Their wrong decisions for education and career has
increased pressure and stress on them as they are meeting employment related opportunities
effectively.

Solution of distraction of youngsters from their aims and objectives can be made by
making effective policies like scholarships, rewards etc. by the government. This will encourage
them to use all the facilities effectively and lead the life.
Furthermore, disabled youngsters can be given special reservation in never field which
reduces their problems and helps them to present their talent in front of people (Mohamed and
Wheeler, 2012). All the companies and physically fit people have to give respect to them and
provide equal chance to them which encourages them to lead their life in better ways.
Communication gap and time management skills can be developed when they must be
given guidance from experts and teachers. This will help them to prioritize their task and achieve
them before time. Further, they can motivate themselves in performing better and increase their
speed by practising the task many times (O’Donoghue and Kirshner, 2014). This will help them
to achieve their target and help them to make themselves as mature and responsible adult of the
country.
Paragraph 1:
Problem:
Less experience of world's things always put young leaders into problem. They have to
face issues while solving problems of the society and world. For example, young leaders wants
changes frequently, they do not have years of making decision.
Paragraph 2
Young leaders want changes so that they can change their present and help people to
make tomorrow better. They are so much energetic that they make wrong decisions in critical
situations. For example, Their impatience will and enthusiasm quality will lead to bring change
faster in the societies and country. This will create problems as quality will be poor and the
accuracy of results are not appreciable.
Paragraph 3
Youngsters are more confident and trying to bring change in their society. They try their
best in changing blindsides and wrong system of the society.
For example: Young generation are relied on their abilities to achieve desired results.
Communication is the big issue which was faced by most of the people. Young generation also
have not handled time management properly and priorities their tasks to increase their
productivity. This is the main reason which affects the productivity of people. It is seen that

skills and talents of youngsters are appreciable but they are not able to express them and properly
manage them according to time. This leads to their poor performance and increases pressure on
them.
Paragraph 4
Young leaders do not want they must be treated as leaders in the society by leaders as
they want to bring change by converting their words into actions. They concentrate more on
changing mentality of people by ignoring generational difference.
For example, They often commit mistakes of ignoring generation difference and consider every
age group as same before implementing changes in the society. This will lead them to failure and
do not achieve desired results.
Solutions:
Paragraph 1
Young people have to welcome the changes and do not oppose them. They have to follow
all the rules and regulation while implementing new strategies which helps in bringing change in
the society.
For example: They put their best efforts in achieving their goals and objectives. Youngsters use
their whole energy in achieving desired results.
Paragraph 2
Youngsters are very much dedicated in bringing change and tries their best in broadening
the mentality of narrow minded people.
For example: They take every challenge very enthusiastically and make plans to handle it
effectively. Young leaders are always found ways in giving challenges to opposing issues of the
society.
Paragraph 3
Young generation have to focus more on results and outcomes of their strategies of other
people so that they can analyse the problem more deeply and provide solutions according to it.
For example: They have to work with more dedication so that they can get better results. This
will help them in bringing great change in old system of the world.
Paragraph 4
Young leaders have to more understandable so that they can make effective stretch goals
and objectives.

For example: Leaders have to make stretch goals and help their team members in achieving their
targets. This will increase their productivity and they will get desired results.
Above issue can be resolved if youngsters actively participate and show their interest in
making effective political parties and decisions of the country. Further, they can involve
themselves more in achieving their future goals rather than distracting through social media
websites and following wrong trends and fashion of the world (Mitra, 2014).
CONCLUSION
From the above findings, it is clear that pacific youth with leadership
opportunities can help them grow into responsible adults. There are various issues
which distracts them from their goals and targets, but they can be reduced and
handled by guiding them and providing them better opportunities. It can also be
seen that young generation can make themselves as leaders and champions by
achieving their targets and can bring big change in the world.
a) Rephrase thesis: Society will change when youth will be given leadership opportunities
which will help all the people.
b) sum up ideas in essay
Section 1: (problems list):
Inexperience, impatience and delegation are the factors which create great problems for them.
Their acceptance as leaders in front of adults is very embarrassing for them as they feel
awkward.
Section 2 : (solutions list):
Leaders will solve their problems by welcoming change, giving full efforts, focusing intently on
results and making stretch goals.
Smooth finish:
Providing leadership to young generation will bring positive change in the society and yield
better future for overall public.

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