Download This SWOT Analysis Worksheet To Understand Your Skills, Strengths And Weaknesses

Understanding yourself is about having the confidence to recognise both your achievements AND your flaws. See who you are, not just who you’d like to be. That means getting a balance between putting yourself down and bragging yourself up.

The closer you get to finding that balance of confidence and honesty, the closer you get to having REAL self confidence. The kind that lets you be yourself. And when you understand yourself, that’s when you can make the best decisions for you.

It’s okay to admit you have weaknesses you can improve on.

Too much armour makes you lose flexibility in life.

It’s okay to admit you have skills and strengths that make you special.

Getting lost in the crowd can make you feel safe but you deserve to shine.

Activity: Fill in your SWOT worksheet

Download the PDF worksheet to create your own personal SWOT analysis of your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

• Your strengths can be anything from work experience achievements to being a good listener.
• Your weaknesses could include negative attitudes you know you need to work on, or your lack of access to equipment you need for carrying out a project or job hunting.
• Your opportunities could be job vacancies or advice, tips and offers of help from people you know.
• Your threats could be issues you need to deal with right now, like sourcing training or job hunting opportunities in rural areas.