Saturday, December 29, 2018

SWOC for Self: Summary: Lesson Plan


SWOC Analysis for Self


SWOC is an assessment tool emerging in corporate that can be adapted to individual use. The acronym can be expanded to strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and concerns. A student can benefit from this activity as it aids self-assessment, goal-setting and strategizing for better future performance. The student becomes aware of his/her strengths, identifies his/her weaknesses so that these can be overcome and realizes the opportunities and concerns that propel or constraint the particular individual.


To aid the analysis, following activities were undertaken:
1.      Students exposed to conventional interview questions and asked to respond in limited time.
2.      Students asked unconventional and unexpected interview questions and asked to respond.
3.      Student asked to define their role models in form of one-liners.
4.      Students asked to understand the importance of USPs and unique qualities.
5.      Students asked to read out skill sets desirable in  their discipline/branch from a slip drawn from a jar marked “SKILLS”.
6.      Students asked to read out coloured slips from a jar marked “GOALS”. Actually, these Goals would be skills that should be acquired by the time the students pass out of the university so that they are industry –ready professionals/engineers.
7.      Students are asked to draw a graphic image of their future five years from the present time.
8.      The students are asked to identify ny ‘obstacle’ and find a way to GROW where G is goal, R is current  reality, O is obstacle as well as option that helps you overcome it and W is the Way forward.
The SWOC analysis designed here is not completely original but makes innovative use of corporate exercises and ideal CV scripts/ interview scenarios to motivate the students to introspect for understanding their own capabilities.
The students responded with zest.

Designed by
Divyajyoti Singh
Asst. Professor, English

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