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The Personal SWOT Analysis will provide insights based on your personality strengths and weaknesses, challenges you see ahead, opportunities present around you now, as well as future favorable circumstances.
Finally, look at any threats to your career growth. This part accounts for the external factors that could hurt the chances of attaining your goals.
List out all the things that affect your work due to the external environment. See below a few examples and feel free to add your own:
1) Family problems
2) Issues in your marriage
3) Anxiety (mental health issues)
4) Childcare, etc.
Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years? Will there be a drastic change?
List out future changes that you will have to add or avoid if you own a business.
If you have a job, will advancement in technology cost you your job?
Performing this analysis will often provide key information – it can point out what needs to be done and put problems into perspective.
These are sample questions and sample answers, please feel free to add your own questions and answers.
Once you have listed out your SWOT - It's now time to evaluate and determine further steps that need to be taken in order to achieve your goals.
There are mainly two methods:
1) Matching
2) Turning negatives into positives
The other method is converting your weaknesses into strengths or threats into opportunities.
For example: growing a skill set through education, finding a creative way to feature a weakness as a strength, etc.
You can evaluate your results using the matching method, which means connecting two of the categories to determine a course of action.
Please see a few examples here.
For example matching strengths to opportunities shows you where to be aggressive and take action.
game night
hot rod
This is the most important step of all: bringing the plan into action.
Start using your results to track your progress. Set up measurements and milestones and keep working toward them. Step by step, you will get where you want to be, so get started now!
For the opportunities section, look at the external factors you can take advantage of in pursuing a promotion, finding a new job or determining a direction for your career.
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'Technology' is not equal to Information Technology. For example, if you are in the soap-making business and you bring machines that speed up the process, you have introduced new technology or a process.
Add some questions and answers related to your industry and niche.
Try to create your own questions and answers that relate to your industry.
If you plan on changing your job or investing in your own business:
Have you calculated the risk involved?
Add a few questions and answers of your own related to the industry that you work in.
