Your Personal Development Plan
A SWOT analysis allows you to consider both the internal and external aspects that may affect your career planning.
Working through this tool will have provided you with information about your values, skills, and career motivations. This encourages you to take the information and consider how each element may work together within a changing environment. It may show you some opportunities that you use to gain new skills.
Strengths
Think about the skills and experience you currently hold.
| What have you achieved? | Goals, tasks, ideas, projects. |
| What are you good at? | Skills, talents, enjoyment, misc. |
| What are your skills? | Professional and/or personal |
Weaknesses
Think about the skills and experience that you don’t currently hold but require.
| Do you lack any skills/qualifications? | Look at this with the hope of improving the skill. |
| What professional qualities do you need that you don’t currently have? | What’s a potential way to improve in this way? |
Opportunities
Think about what the future holds and what opportunities will there be for you.
| What is happening in your environment that will provide an opportunity for you to develop new skills? | How is the climate of work changing? And how are you connected to it? |
| What opportunities will provide you with new experiences? | In work and life, what makes you most happy? What do you like making? |
Threats
Threats are those factors that are affecting your environment and which may mean new skills or experience is required.
| What is happening in your environment that may require new skills? | How do technology and competition affect you? |
| What is happening with your role that may require new skills? | What could you improve to get closer to your goals? |
Development Plan
A personal development plan sets out the actions that you propose to take to learn and develop yourself.
| Skill | Current Level | Desired Level | Possible opportunities to enhance or gain this skill. |
How might I _____________________________________________________________________
If
________________________________________________,
then
______________________________________________.
How might I demonstrate that I am a good person?