Analyze Strengths and Weaknesses – Eric’s Story

I’m Eric Philippou, and I’m writing this blog as part of my college internship at ILI. I recently completed a series of assessments and will now analyze the information. Gather what you’ve learned about yourself into the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) analysis tool. This is a great tool that you can use at any time for many different situations. You can use it n the context of your career plans and some athletes I know use it for their sports also.

Real World Application

It helps to take several different assessments to give me different views of myself.  I recommend taking all of the assessments, especially those that are free. After screen capturing or printing the results, please read them carefully to see how to apply them to your daily life. Remember to put 80% of your focus on strengths and 20% on weaknesses. Perhaps take some time Monday through Thursday to focus on a different strength each day, and on Friday, focus on a weakness. For example, I’ll play to my group’s strengths on Monday based on the vibrancy assessment. On Tuesday, I’ll focus on using my “Peacemaker” abilities from the Enneagram. On Friday, I’ll focus on mitigating the weaknesses and threats from my SWOT assessment. Do that, and you may become more comfortable as a leader.

In the next post, I will answer the reflection questions about what I learned during the assessments and SWOT analysis.