A SWOT analysis usually represents strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is commonly used in the professional world to analyze the past, present, and future position of a company. However, can be used equally as useful on a personal level as an effective method and guide to identify areas for improvement in order to take advantage of opportunities in your future, and become the best versions of yourself.
When conducting a personal SWOT analysis, you must determine what you find your strengths and opportunities to be, as these are things you consider favorable and within your control, while weaknesses and threats are unfavorable and dictated by external forces.
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Before completing a SWOT, I identified what my goal is that I would like to achieve and what I will do to achieve my goal. I identified my personal strengths that will help me achieve my goal and analyzed my weaknesses that could possibly prevent me from achieving my goal. I identified my personal opportunities that could help me achieve my goal and identified my threats that could stop me from achieving my goals.
Strengths
My biggest strength towards reaching my goal is being in my final 6 months of graduating and achieving my Oral Health Therapy degree from La Trobe University. This is important to be because I have always had a passion for Oral Health, and this is something I have always wanted to pursue. Another strength of mine is having available support from demonstrators and colleagues, I find this to be very fulfilling as I am in a learning environment and I find their rationale and guidance to be very rewarding. Once I graduate from La Trobe, I can use my experience to excel through my career and make good decisions. Another strength, is my communication and professionalism. I believe this is a good strength to have as I am able to impress and demonstrate to future employers that I am a qualified professional.
Weaknesses
When determining my weakness, I asked myself what am I not comfortable doing? Something I find I am not completely comfortable doing is working in a pressured environment. This becomes a major weakness as it can prevent me from achieving my goal. I also find this to be an issue in everyday life. This is a weakness because when I find myself to be in a pressured environment, I tend to rush my notes/work. For example, when writing notes after a procedure in a pressured environment it may lead to missing or wrong information making it a serious issue. To overcome this weakness, I have developed a strategic method to completed my notes in the available timeframe and limit myself to have spare time to make in final edits and corrections on my notes.
Opportunities
An opportunity I have happily excepted is having a job lined up. The reason I find this to be a great opportunity is because my employer has offered me to observe, seek advice, and have guidance to anything I am having trouble with. This allows me to open up and learn in a one-on-one setting, where I will have no distractions. This opportunity will also help me in my training with learning and developing that I can share with others and implement it in a clinical setting. Another opportunity for me would having access to videos and lecture throughout the course, allowing me to go back and refer to things as well as having the information always available when required. The final opportunity I have decided to take part of is attending CPD events when available online. I find that this is a great opportunity as it is continuing professional development and allowing me to have further information on topics, I would like to learn more about.
Threats
When identifying my threats, I asked myself what obstacles are in my way to success? I find my biggest threat for me is self-doubt. I find that I usually doubt my work making me feel like I haven’t achieved the expected level. This is a threat because I find that it puts me in a negative mind set making me feel less motivated to achieve my goal. However, I have always felt that way, but have had the privilege to receive many positive responses and feedback from different educators and demonstrators. The way I plan to overcome this threat is to change by attitude on how I perceive my own work, whether that means lowering my own expectations as well as accepting all positive and negative feedback and using this to my advantage to improve myself. Another threat I find of mine is stress. I find that I can become very stressed when having too many tasks to complete. However, a way I can overcome this is preparing myself before classes and organizing my tasks in order to what should be completed first and allow myself to work on different tasks throughout my spare time, that way I can complete my tasks to a great standard.
Summary
With the help of SWOT analysis, I believe it has helped me identify my strengths, reduce my weaknesses, exploit my opportunities and minimize and eliminate possible threats, it is definitely a great tool for personal development, as it will help me preform my work in a better manner and is useful to motivate myself and become successful. Other reasons why I find completing this SWOT analysis to be a great tool is because it helps me develop strategies to achieve my goal and helps me understand who I really am as a person. I can now see where I currently stand on the path of success as this also makes me focus on all my attitudes, abilities and skills I have developed throughout my degree.
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