Well\n because SWOT is all about Self awareness and awareness about our \nenvironment. We have culturally been conditioned to define \nself-awareness as knowing about our strengths, living our strengths and \nstrengthening our strengths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe\n don\u2019t become enlightened by pretending to be perfect. We become \nenlightened when we have the courage to acknowledge and embrace our \ndarkness\u201d \u2014 Carl Jung<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nSo,\n I want you to understand that if you truly want to grow and develop \nyourself you got to be willing to go deeper self and this will hurt. It \nwill disturb and disrupt your comfort that is why most people often \navoid it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SWOT JOURNEY<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nBefore you start on your SWOT journey , I want you to keep in mind the following :<\/p>\n\n\n\n
1- Context<\/strong>–\n Are you doing SWOT to evaluate a business , product, process, career \nswitch or yourself. Do your SWOT keeping your context throughout in your\n mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n2- Purpose & Values <\/strong>\u2014 Know your purpose and values.<\/p>\n\n\n\n3- Divergent thinking<\/strong> \u2014 keeping the context in mind while exploring all the possibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n4- Futuristic approach <\/strong>\u2014 Think at least 10 years ahead and list down those things that will help you build and survive in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n5- Feedback<\/strong>\n \u2014 Ask your family members, friends, colleagues and most importantly \nyour mentors and teachers to do your SWOT. This will enlighten and give \nyou a better perspective.<\/p>\n\n\n\nI\n personally love to remember everything I would enjoy doing in my \nchildhood that gave me immense happiness and so sometimes reflecting \nback on your past to look for your hidden strengths might also help.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nSWOT\u200a\u2014\u200aIt is a planning tool to identify your key Internal strengths and weaknesses and External opportunities and threats.<\/h4>\n\n\n\nNow start by taking a piece of paper and drawing 4 equal quadrants of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The whole job now is to fill each category by asking several questions to yourself.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n1. Strengths \u2014 <\/strong>What\u2019s hot about you?<\/h4>\n\n\n\nQualities that can be used for your advantage over others. List down your –<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\u00b7 Skills \/ Talents<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Qualification \/ Certification<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Achievements<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Expertise that makes a difference<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Advantages you have over others<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Skills, values and ethics that set you apart<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Skills & talents that others see in you<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Strong personality traits<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Resources & assets that can help you<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Financial backup<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Network \u2014 people who can help you<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n2.<\/strong> Weaknesses \u2014 What\u2019s not so hot?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nQualities that are a disadvantage over others<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\u00b7 Things you are less confident and uncomfortable about<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Development\/ Improvement areas \u2014 skills, education or competencies<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Negative work habits<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Mental blocks<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Missing skills<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Missing qualifications \/ certifications<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Weaknesses according to others<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Weak personality traits<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Financial backup<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n3.<\/strong> Opportunities \u2014 What can make you hotter?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nElements that can be exploited for your advantage.<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\u00b7 Think about what different areas or fields you can apply your skills to<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Think about what different target segments you can serve<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Uniqueness in your products, services or skills<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Areas where you have advantage over others<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Areas where others are failing that you can take advantage of<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Trends and market opportunities you can exploit<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Advantage of your location or geography<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Think what and how new technology can help you<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Advantage you already have in current market or job<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Is there a demand of skills or talents you possess?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 See how strong your network of strategic contacts are, that can help you.<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n4.<\/strong> Threats \u2014 What might burn you?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nElements in the environment that could cause trouble<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n\u00b7 What is it that your competitors are doing which could be a threat?<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Obstacles you face in current business or work or situation<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Weaknesses you are unable to overcome<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Political, social or environmental troubles if any<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Any changing technology, skill set demand, social changes or perception threatening your position<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Personal traits hurting your career advancements<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Changing market demand or product trends<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\u00b7 Economic pressure<\/em><\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\nUSE your SWOT<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nStrengths<\/strong> \u2014 Use them to build and capitalize upon<\/p>\n\n\n\nWeaknesses<\/strong> \u2014 Use them to improve yourself or eliminate them<\/p>\n\n\n\nOpportunities<\/strong> \u2014 Seize them, anticipate or invest in them<\/p>\n\n\n\nThreats<\/strong> \u2014 Identify and eliminate them<\/p>\n\n\n\nWe\n are here done with our data synthesis and in the next and the last part\n of this blog series we will prepare our action plan through the TOWS \nanalysis. Happy SWOTing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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