SWOT Analysis

Tishan Crowe

Leadership

Personal SWOT Analysis

Strengths			Weaknesses
Ambitious			Small support system
Focused			Procrastinate
Determined			No patience
Strong-minded			Easily Annoyed
My Faith			Stubborn
Fast Learner			Sickly/ Weak immune system
Good with managing finances			My biggest Critique
Opportunities			Threats
Receiving Scholarships			Tuition increasing
Job offerings			Lost of current scholarships
Finding a mentor			Family Issues
To gain training and experience			Increase in cost of living
Study/Work abroad			Losing my student visa

I am very grateful for my strengths as I personally think that they outnumber and are greater than my weaknesses. To me, they are some of the best ingredients for success.

In truth, my weaknesses often serve as motivators for me. For instance, because of the fact I have a small support system, I push harder to prove to people how much I am capable of. Also, because I have no patience, I independently get things done to prevent myself from waiting around on others to do for me. At the end of the day, my weaknesses are indeed the areas I need to improve on, but until I am where I need to be with them, I use them to my advantage.

As for my opportunities, I have slowly been trying to achieve them by using them as goals. I am currently the recipient of 3 scholarships, including one from Johnson and Wales. Also, I am technically already “studying abroad” as I am an international student, although being able to enroll in JWU’s study abroad program would be another opportunity to aim for.

My threats are of course the situations that I am hopeful to avoid. Though these are external factors that I do not necessarily have control over, I do whatever I can. For example, there could be the possibility of funding for my scholarships to decease/ not be available, but I do my part in up-keeping my GPA for that not to be the reason I lose any of my scholarships.

I feel that my strengths and weaknesses impact both my personal and professional lives because they are apart of who I am. They define my actions and thoughts, be it on a regular basis or when in the professional field. They are the things I use to my advantage when setting and trying to achieve personal and professional goals, and the things that I try to improve along the way.