Do you know your greatest strengths and weakness? You should know so you better understand and gauge your core leadership skill-sets; your may need a mentor, coach or sponsor to offer assistance on your job, career and work-life balance.
Ruth PearceAttorney, Author, and Coach | Guardian Ad Litem in North Carolina| A Lever Long Enough (ALLE LLC)Durham, Nc, United States
This is very interesting Naomi.
One of the observations of SWOT analysis is that we tend to go too quickly to the W and the T and skip over the Strengths and Opportunities. Also, some people look at opportunities in the light of ways they can do better rather than from the perspective of what they can do with what they already have. Spending more time in the S at the start - following the practices of Appreciative inquiry(https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTMC_85.htm) or Intentional Change Theory (https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/in...nge-theory.htm)
Taking the strengths assessment first can put you in the mindset of seeing things from a more positive perspective (what Richard Boyatzis refers to as Positive Emotional Attractors) which can make tackling and overcoming weaknesses easier to accomplish and therefore make the subsequent SWOT analysis more effective.
Check out your strengths, discuss any surprises, see which strengths you would like to cultivate. Weaknesses are often strengths overused (not strengths lower down the ranking). Think about when your curiosity feels like the spanish inquisition, or perseverance prevents you from letting something go.
Move onto SWOT and the sky is the limit! Saving Changes...
