4-4 Final Project Milestone Two: SWOT Analysis

OL 125 Milestone Two Guidelines and Rubric

Overview: In this course, you will have many opportunities to take self-assessments that will allow you to reflect on yourself as a person, student, and professional. This second milestone gives you an opportunity to identify your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats for improvement as they pertain to leadership.

Prompt: For this milestone assignment, complete the SWOT Analysis Template and write a brief reflection on a component of this analysis that you found most interesting. The SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis will help you determine more information about where your additional strengths and weaknesses lie. In addition, the SWOT analysis can help you identify opportunities that you may not have otherwise known about in addition to helping you understand weaknesses and eliminate threats that could keep you from moving forward.

When completing the SWOT analysis template, create a list of at least four bullet points, in complete sentences, for each component.

Draw from your Milestone One work and feedback you received to help you complete this assignment. Remember that both milestone assignments will be important components to your final project in Module Seven.

Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed:

SWOT Analysis: The SWOT analysis will help you determine more information about where your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats lie and how these components relate to a role in leadership. Your answers in the SWOT analysis template must address in complete sentences:

I. Strengths: Address how your personality strengths could benefit you in a leadership role. II. Weaknesses: Address potential weaknesses in your personality as a leader and how your temperament, character, approach to conflict, and/or attitude

about taking on a leadership role may be areas for improvement or change. III. Opportunities: Address opportunities you could take advantage of, based on your strengths you have provided. IV. Threats: Address the external or unexpected threats that may impact your leadership, including how you could be using your strengths you have listed

to guard against these threats. V. Reflect on a section of the SWOT analysis, and include what you found most interesting about it.

Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your milestone assignment should include the completed SWOT analysis template, listing at least four bullet points, using complete sentences for each component. In addition, this assignment should include a one-paragraph (150–200 words) reflection on what was most interesting to you in filling out the SWOT analysis.

Critical Elements Proficient (100%) Needs Improvement (85%) Not Evident (0%) Value

SWOT Analysis: Strengths

Addresses personality strengths that could be beneficial to a leadership role

Addresses personality strengths, but some strengths listed are not relevant to a leadership role or are unclear

Does not address personality strengths

20

SWOT Analysis: Weaknesses

Addresses personality weaknesses that may impact a role in leadership

Addresses personality weaknesses, but some weaknesses listed are not relevant to a role in leadership or are unclear

Does not address personality weaknesses

20

SWOT Analysis: Opportunities

Addresses opportunities that could be advantageous based on SWOT strengths listed

Addresses opportunities that could be advantageous, but opportunities are unclear or not based on SWOT strengths listed

Does not address opportunities 20

SWOT Analysis: Threats Addresses threats and how SWOT strengths could be used to guard against them

Addresses threats, but how SWOT strengths could be used to guard against them is unclear

Does not address threats 20

Reflection Reflects a thoughtful and personal application of the material

Reflects a somewhat personal application of the material

Does not reflect a sufficient personal application of the material

15

Writing Mechanics Errors of grammar, spelling, or format are marginal and rarely interrupt flow

Errors of grammar, spelling, or format are limited enough that the analysis is still able to be understood

Errors of grammar, spelling, or format make the analysis difficult to understand

5

Total 100%