AttorneyMentoring.com Analyzing your Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Using the questions below undertake a SWOT analysis on yourself. SWOT is the acronym of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats. It is a simple, popular technique which can be used in preparing a career plan or business plan, in problem solving and decision making and in evaluating your performance. The results will help you improve your performance, address your weaknesses and threats, and exploit your strengths and opportunities.A SWOT analysis can also create the impetus to help you develop suitable strategies and tactics. 1. List your Strengths (current): 2. List your Weaknesses (areas which need to be developed; current).  (Be honest.  No one else need see this.   Key questions include: What obstacles may prevent progress? Which elements need strengthening? It is not unusual for 'People' skills to show up as a weakness.) 3. List Your Opportunities (future): 4. List Your Threats (future) - the opposite of Opportunities, these are things which may, with a shift of emphasis or perception, have an adverse impact.  Weighing threats against opportunities is not a reason to indulge in pessimism. It is rather a question of considering how possible negative experience may be limited or eliminated. 5. Evaluate listed ideas against objectives. With the lists compiled, sort and group facts and ideas in relation to the objectives.