SWOB analysis

SWOB Analysis

Do you really know yourself? What are your strengths and weaknesses? What are your opportunities and barriers?

Maximise your strengths, improve your weaknesses, and advance your career with the SWOB analysis.

Course Detail

Participants: Individual
Minutes: 30

Outcomes

Gain self awareness!

Leadership development must start with self-awareness. Understanding yourself is key to understanding others, and therefore to generous leadership behaviours. The most successful leaders critically assess and understand their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, barriers, motivations, and values.

Get Started

Step 1

Have a look at our Social Leadership capabilities framework. What are your Opportunities in these areas? What Barriers might stand in the way of strengthening these weaknesses or seizing new opportunities?

Empowering Enabler

Empowers others to take on new challenges and training. Acts as a role model to others, pursues continuous self-development and cultivates an environment where others can excel

Focused Strategist

Continuously seeks organisational improvement for the people they serve. Delivers on outcomes, resourceful and strategic, considers wider systems and context.

Passionate Advocate

Cause passionate, committed to the mission and people they serve. Strong moral compass, wide civic responsibility, engages in debate and activities. Looks within and beyond sector to find solutions for social change.

Generous Collaborator

Establishes and grows collaborative partnerships and relationships. Generously shares information, assets and time and builds trust through seeking and giving feedback.

Courageous Changemaker

Courageous and drives change through being a responsible risk taker. Develops innovative solutions with and through others by having foresight and asking why

Inspirational Communicator

Relates to others with authenticity. Has a clear expression of mission and values and is able to modify approach and re-frame based on feedback

Step 2

Set a timer for 10 minutes, and use the capability framework to answer the questions below with whatever comes to mind.

Step 3

Have a look at your SWOB analysis, you should receive an email in a few moments. Where do your strengths lie? Which areas do you need to focus on?

Step 4

Using your SWOB, create three action points. These should be a mixture of how you plan to capitalise on the opportunities presented and how you will overcome the barriers that have arisen

Once you have completed these action points, you should check in on a monthly basis to measure progress.

Did you enjoy the SWOB?

Remember to mention us on Twitter @CloreSocial or LinkedIn @CloreSocialLeadership sharing your experience!

Based on your interaction with SWOB, you may want to check out the Discover programme. Click here to find out more!

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