Strategic Self-Assessment
Originally presented at CAT on Sep. 25, 2024 by Jason S. Todd and Mark Gstohl.
As a part of Preparing Mentors and Advisors at Xavier (P-MAX), this brainstorming session challenged faculty to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats in their work as mentors to students.
This workshop provides an overview of the SWOT analysis, a tool that has been used in a variety of fields for fifty years. While the process is generally used by businesses and non-profit organizations, it can also be used as a self-assessment tool. You can learn more about the history and uses of the SWOT analysis in this Wikipedia article.
For the purposes of this workshop, participants applied the analysis to their work as mentors to graduate and undergraduate students, shared their personal assessment with the rest of the group, and ended by identifying one small change they can immediately apply to their work as mentors.
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