SWOT
Analysis

Assessment & Discovery Tools

Surface your strengths, gaps, opportunities, and risks
with guiding prompts in each quadrant.

Four Quadrants, One Picture

SWOT is useful not because the four categories are new - you already know what strengths and threats are. It is useful because putting them on the same page forces you to see them in relation to each other. A strength that aligns with an opportunity is a lever. A weakness exposed to a known threat is a gap that needs closing before it finds you.

Most people rush through this exercise. Strengths get the most ink. Weaknesses get softened. Threats get underestimated. The guiding questions in each quadrant are there to slow that pattern down and draw out entries that are concrete enough to act on.

How to Use This Worksheet

  1. Define your scope before you start. A specific role, decision, project, or career moment produces sharper answers than a general self-assessment. Write your scope in the Subject field.
  2. Use the guiding prompts as starting points. Each quadrant includes two questions to help you move past vague answers. You are not limited to them - they are there to open the space, not contain it.
  3. Fill all four quadrants before analyzing any. Resist the pull to evaluate or plan while you are still filling in entries. Capture first; interpret after.
  4. Cross-reference when complete. Where does a strength meet an opportunity you have not pressed? Where does a weakness sit exposed to a threat? Those intersections are where the real work begins.
  5. Bring this to your coaching session. The quadrant you filled in the least quickly - or avoided most - often holds the most useful material for discussion.
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SWOT Analysis

Strengths
What are your skills and abilities?
What do you do well compared to others?
Weaknesses
What could you improve?
Where do you have fewer resources than others?
Opportunities
What trends could you take advantage of?
What connections or networks could help you?
Threats
What obstacles do you face?
What are others doing that could affect you?
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Before Your Next Session

Now that you can see the full picture:

Which strength, if you pressed it deliberately toward an opportunity, would have the most impact on your current situation?
Look at your Threats. Which one sits directly across from a Weakness? What would it take to close that gap before the threat arrives?
Which quadrant did you struggle to fill in? What does that resistance tell you about where your attention has been going?
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