3 PACE: The Process of Active Committed Enthusiasm 3.1 PACE: What Is It? As summarised in the previous section, there has been a substantial volume of academic research into well-being, as well as engagement, most often treated as separate phenomena. This book, however, has a practical objective to help political and organisational leaders to engender high levels of active well-being, happiness and engagement in their staff or citizens. To that end, and building on those substantial bodies of research, we have developed the process of active committed enthusiasm (PACE), which can be used at any level of detail, from a country down to an individual, so that the reader or practitioner can decide for him or herself how to achieve the greatest impact and outcome. For instance, they could decide that when considering an outcome such as productivity, it would be appropriate to consider the impact of a company’s working practices or leadership support, or alterna- tively, it is possible to ‘drill down’ into the individual context and perhaps address a specific causal factor (e.g. recognition by a leader or indeed specific personality factors that might be involved). The PACE model is versatile, in that it provides a framework not only within which one can model causes and outcomes, but also allows the measurement or estimation of the significance of a relevant causal factor. In spite of the detail that the PACE model can highlight, because of the causal factors which can affect behaviour and outcomes, this approach rep- resents a simplified model, although it will provide alternatives based on the © The Author(s) 2018 W. Scott-Jackson and A. Mayo, Transforming Engagement, Happiness and Well-Being, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-56145-5_3 105