SWOT analysis is a useful tool for identifying our personal strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to our plans and objectives. According to an article “Fuel My Motivation” (2010), this analysis takes into account internal influences that can positively or negatively affect our ability to achieve our goals. Internal factors are our strengths and weaknesses. Also considered are opportunities and threats, which are external influences that can have a positive or negative impact on the ability to achieve our goals. I will share how the self-assessment instruments and self-assessment exercises in this course helped assess and understand my strengths and weaknesses. I will also discuss the techniques I will use to leverage my strengths and understand my weaknesses. Additionally, I will consider the opportunities that I can take advantage of and the threats that can possibly hinder my progress. Through the self-assessment instruments used in this program, I have gained a wealth of knowledge about my strengths and weaknesses and how they affect my personal and professional life. By using different exercises, I recognized new strengths and weaknesses. At the same time, I identified ways to develop my strengths and overcome my weaknesses. The Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI) identified some of my strengths as the ability to get things done, initiate, and take risks (Kolb, 2007). In the strongest self-assessment exercise, some of the comments indicated my strengths as excellent interpersonal and communication skills, self-confidence, quick learning ability, determination, hard work and remarkable listening skills (Drucker, 2005). A former manager congratulated me. to have a versatile communication style. He loved college...... middle of paper ......: CPP.Cameron, KS and Whetten, DA (2011). Developing Management Skills (Vol. Eighth Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Educatin, Inc. Kilman, RH and Thomas, KW (2007). Thoms-Kilman Conflict Mode Instrument. Mountain View, CA: CPP, Inc. Kolb, D.A. (2007). Kolb Learning Style Inventory LSI Workbook. Americas and Asia-Pacific: Hay Group Transforming Learning. Kolb, DA, Osland, JS, Rubin, IM, & Turner, ME (2007). The Organizational BehaviorReader (Vol. Eighth Edition). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall. Porter, E. H. (2005). Force deployment inventory. Manage conflicts and improve relationships. Carlsbad, CA: Personal Strengths Publication. (2010). SWOT analysis for setting and achieving personal goals. Retrieved March 2, 2011 from Fuel My Motivation: http://www.fuel-my-motivation.com/swot-analysis.html