Guest Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Hi I have been given a SWOT form to fill in by my early years advisors for staff develpoment ... before i give these to the staff i want to be clear in my own mind how you fill them in... i may be being a little slow here but there are 4 boxs around the outside which have headings off strenghs,weaknesses, opportunities and threats and in the middle job title.... i'm not sure what they mean by threats.... i cant expect my staff to fill them in when i'm unsure myself.... does anybody else use these for their staff.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 I would take it to mean that 'Threats' are the opposite of 'opportunities' ie. things which will stop you taking up the opportunities, like organising childcare, or funding, or the distance or availability of training. Strange wording though. We had threats as a column heading in our old business and operational plan, where it was used to identify threats to the continuation of the preschool itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hali Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 i would take it as things you cant do/achieve because of obstacles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TORO Posted February 13, 2009 Share Posted February 13, 2009 Threats can also mean competitors. Toro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 we used these at college. look at it as barriers to doing the job, for us it was barriers to learning, working full time, time keeping, family comitments, EAL etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alison Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 we use something simlar and it can mean any problem obstacle or barrier that will prevent or hamper the progress or developement of the staff/ setting doing their jobs or achieving their goals must admit the word "threat" sounds scary but if the word was "problems" or "barriers" then you would be handing out swop or swob forms, swot sounds better acronym Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cait Posted February 14, 2009 Share Posted February 14, 2009 i would take it as things you cant do/achieve because of obstacles Lovely new pic Hali Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 15, 2009 Share Posted February 15, 2009 Consider 'internal' and 'external' when thinking of opportunities and threats. I remember doing this for my business plan, I put 'government' as one of my 'threats' as I felt politics, H&S, political correctness, etc etc was the bain at that time. In a broad sense, I'd say strengths and weaknesses are about self and opportunities & threats are others influences. Peggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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