SWOT Analysis for Personal Development Plan in Becoming a Motivational Speaker

This essay evaluates SWOT analysis for personal development plan in becoming a motivational speaker. It discusses strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats and how a personal development plan can help improve skills and abilities. The progress made and updates on the SWOT analysis are also reflected upon.

SWOT Analysis
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Table of contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
The essay will evaluate SWOT analysis for area of analysis and development with help of
Personal Development Plan and in this manner, ways through which how to make career in
becoming a motivational speaker will be also known by improvement in some skills and abilities
through effective and efficient manner.
MAIN BODY
Assessment 001
Discussion on SWOT analysis of the items and the area of analysis and development
The career chosen by me is being a Motivational Speaker. There are various skills and
abilities which a motivational speaker imbibes (GURL, 2017). The major thing which is being
analyzed and evaluated is that being a motivational speaker, I will need many skills and abilities
to be improved which will be covered under my weaknesses. There are also many strengths and
opportunities which will help me in my career development through which I will be able to learn
many new things that will help me grow in my career and will be able to develop the skills and
abilities which will be required to me.
There are various skills and abilities which I imbibe are storytelling, adaptability, passion,
engaging presentation. These are the skills which I have and more than that I need to learn and
improve my various other skills and abilities so that I deliver effective and significant
performance to individuals and this will also help me building my career. These above
mentioned abilities and skills are my strengths which help me in taking my career at peak and
reach the scale of achieving all the success by becoming a motivational speaker.
Apart from this there are various aspects and factors of weaknesses which I imbibe and want
to improve. My weaknesses are - Lack of leadership skills, less communicative skills, lack of
confidence and lack of control. These are the four major weaknesses which I imbibe and I want
to improve these skills and abilities so that I can develop my career effectively and efficiently. I
need to improve my skills and abilities and for this SWOT Analysis is being done which is
explained as below –
Strengths – Strengths helps me in identifying what are the skills and abilities which helps me
growing more and developing more in my career at large scale. The skills which I imbibe for
becoming a motivational speaker are adaptability, engaging presentation, passion, storytelling
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etc. These skills are the strengths which will help me in developing my career and make me
become a motivational speaker (Vlados, 2019).
Weaknesses – There are some of the major weaknesses which help me in knowing that there are
certain skills and abilities which I need to improve and pay attention to. Through this process, I
will be able to achieve the major aspects through which all the perspectives of I becoming a
motivational speaker is known. I lack confidence, there is lack of leadership skills in me, I am
least communicative and also I lack control. These weaknesses are to be improved and known
for the better future and for making career by becoming motivational speaker on large platforms
(Hazzan and et.al., 2017).
Opportunities – There are various opportunities which are made available for me and through
which I will be able to make decisions through which the growth and development in my career
will take place and my future will be safe and secure. There are various opportunities in the
external environment which will help me in knowing the major and basic forms through which I
can develop my skills and abilities and help myself in becoming and effective motivational
speaker.
Threats – There can be threat while developing this career as there are many competitors in the
external business environment which may affect my growth and development in coming into the
field of becoming a motivational speaker (Puyt and et.al., 2020).
For improving the weaknesses Personal Development Plan is implemented and this will
help in knowing the basis through which weaknesses can be improved at large scale. The
Personal Development Plan is explained as –
Target Resource/Strategy Long/Short Term
Goals
Personal
Development
Time
To improve
leadership skills
Reading articles,
online courses, books,
magazines, case
studies.
I will improve my
leadership skill by
gaining knowledge
through learning
leadership styles and
by leading the team
of 5 members.
By improving this
skill I will be able to
motivate and
influence people of
my team.
2 months.
To increase
confidence
Listening to videos of
motivational speakers,
I will increase my
confidence by
It will help me in
knowing the ways
3 months
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reading blogs, articles
etc.
communicating with
people, preparing
speeches in front of
people.
through which I will
be able to make sure
there is raise in my
confidence.
To improve
communication
skills
By communicating
with people around,
reading articles and
magazines of
communication
practices.
I will improve my
communication skill
by taking part in
group activities,
engaging into
conversations with
other people.
It will help me in
improving my
personal growth and
career which is to
become a
motivational
speaker.
1 month
To enhance control
skill
Listening to precise
conversations, reading
the articles, listening to
interviews.
I will enhance my
control skill by
ensuring to
communicate with
people and having
clear and
meaningful
conversations.
It will help me in
my career and
personal
development as I
want to become
motivational
speaker.
5 weeks
With the help of this Personal Development Plan I will be able to improve my career and the
skills and abilities which I need to improve for becoming a good motivational speaker (Personal
SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself ). Weaknesses will be improved by developing
some skills and improving the skills through which I will be able to take concern of my career
and develop the skills and abilities which are prior needed for knowing and acknowledge the
career aspects. By improvement in the weaknesses I will be able to take initiative towards
making changes and developing the skills and abilities for my career. By becoming the
motivational speaker, I will be taking concern of how my weaknesses are improved and through
this I will be able to analyze my current position and perspectives helping me in knowing my
aspects of improvement of how things are taken into concern. By becoming the motivational
speaker I will also be able to increase my strengths and gain opportunities which are available to
me in the business environment (Personal SWOT Analysis).There are various opportunities
which will help me in my career and will make me become a good motivational speaker.
Through this analysis and with help of overcoming and improving my weaknesses I will be able
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to make the changes in my personal life and my professional life. Apart from this, being a
motivational speaker will help me in improving my communication skills and abilities so that I
become a good motivational speaker and is able to make the stage performances effective and
significant. The main reason for being motivational speaker is that I have skills and abilities
which align perfectly into what I have to become and with the help of these abilities and skills I
will be able to make changes when and where necessary in my career (PDP: Personal
Development Plan Example & Explanation [SMART]).
Therefore, the main aspect which is being analysed and evaluated in the perspective of
knowing that being a motivational speaker will create a big career opportunity for me and along
with that there will also be personal growth and development which will help in knowing that
this is the basis through which all the aspects of becoming a motivational speaker create value in
the personal as well as professional career development. With the help of Personal Development
Plan many things will be known which will help me in analysing the basis of how much time the
improvement of weaknesses will be take (How to Create a Personal Development Plan). And along
with this, resources and strategies which will be required are also known at large scale. The long
and short term goals helped in knowing the ways through which the skills and abilities will be
improved. Choosing the career of becoming motivational speaker will also help me in
communicating with the people into different fields and from them I will also learn many things
which will help me in knowing the basis through which all perspectives of becoming the
motivational speaker will be known at large scale. There will be many opportunities which will
be made available to me in the external communicative environment.
The key aspect of preparing the Personal Development Plan was that to help in improving
the scale of how the skills and abilities are converted into positive aspects and through that the
strengths are also known which helps in acknowledging basis through which everything is being
taken into consideration of how being motivational speaker will help in building up the career
and personal growth. This is main reason which is being analyzed in becoming motivational
speaker so that various skills and abilities are known and the weaknesses are improved
effectively and in proper manner.
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CONCLUSION
Thus, it is concluded from the above essay that SWOT analysis for area of analysis and
development was described with help of Personal Development Plan and in this manner, ways
through which how to make career in becoming a motivational speaker was also known by
improving some skills and abilities.
Assessment 002
Reflecting on the progress made and update on SWOT Analysis
I progressed in my development and growth of the skills and abilities which helped me in
knowing the weaknesses and how to improve them. This was done by framing of the Personal
Development Plan in which I realized that how my weaknesses were improved (Developing a
Personal SWOT Analysis To Improve Your Career). The improvement in skills and abilities took
time which helped in analyzing the strategies and resources which were being required for
achieving long and short term goals being made. I have improved my communication skills,
confidence, controlling and leadership skills. I have observed changes in myself through which I
am confident now to change the ways and patterns of how effective and efficient my skills and
abilities have been developed. I also have also observed improvement in my career and personal
life growth that I have incurred such changes at large scale. Through this progress, I am able to
make further changes which have helped me in knowing basis through which I have gained
confidence in performing in my desired career and through this I am also able to initiate
progressive patterns which are helping me in knowing the necessary initiatives which I took in
improving my skills and abilities.
I have improved my leadership skills which have helped in taking along many people all
at once and this has also made me feel confident as my career is into being a motivational
speaker and delivering speeches on large platforms. With the help of the SWOT Analysis, it
became very easy and efficient process for me to known my strengths and weaknesses which
helped me in knowing my strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats which I incur. The
main thing which was being observed through SWOT Analysis was that I was able to identify
my core skills and abilities through which I was able to choose my career which was becoming a
motivational speaker. SWOT analysis also helped me in knowing that there are various
opportunities in my career which may help me in knowing the basis through which I can apply to
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the chances which I achieve from external business environment. The major changes which were
being observed were when I framed PDP for my improvement in some skills and abilities at
large scale. This initiated the steps of how growth and development in personal and professional
career can be made (Personal SWOT Analysis to Assess and Improve Yourself). I gained
confidence and improved my leadership and communication skills through which all aspects of
knowing the scale of improving and enhancing the ways were being evaluated and known at
large scale. My lack in some skills and abilities helped me in analyzing to improve them and
significantly reach my career goal which is to become a motivational speaker. Thus, this is the
progress which I made for my development in career and skills. This also initiated the confidence
in me that I can develop and make changes in my career through some skills and abilities which
are to be framed and then following those for time scale so that they are effectively
accomplished.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
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Hazzan, O. and et.al., 2017. Application of management theories for STEM education: The case
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Puyt, R. and et.al., 2020. Origins of SWOT Analysis. In Academy of Management
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