Personal Assessment
A "Strength/Weakness/Opportunity/Threat Analysis" emphasizes each person's advantages, which must be capitalized on for growth and success, as well as identifies those areas, which need further development to limit negative affects.  The analysis is easy to do.  Just answer the following questions. (Sometimes it is easier to ask a co-worker to help name your strengths and, if you're brave, help you identify your weaknesses.) My professional and individual strengths include: _____ Weaknesses that affect me professionally and personally are: _____ Opportunities available to me include: _____ Threats present at work or at home are: _____ What should you do with this information? Understanding yourself allows you to best develop your potential and decrease threats. If you've identified a weak area, look for opportunities to improve it.  Skills can be developed in many ways including courses - at colleges or universities, technical schools or adult education programs, volunteer work, participation in school or community activities and through being open to new experiences, new places and new people. Once you've defined your strengths, capitalize on them. If you know you are a strong public speaker, or writer, or networked, or project manager, or great with computers; seek out chances to put these skills to use.   Be creative.  Sometimes a hobby can be developed to a further your career.   Succeeding at what you do well is confidence building.  This can give you the self-assurance to tackle weak areas and new challenges. Take advantage of opportunities and minimize threats.  Just identifying threats is the first step to reducing them.  Once you've recognized possible problems, take steps to make them less likely. If the worst does happen, have a scenario set up to deal with it, plan ahead. Keep in Mind: Strengths can be perceived as weaknesses when taken to the extreme. Changes present opportunities as long as skill sets are current. Many threats are beyond individual control but each person determines how to handle them. Periodic  analysis is a useful tool to continuously navigate career and life direction.
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The Keirsey Temperament Sorter  is designed to identify different kinds of personality.  It is similar to other devices derived from Carl Jung's theory of "psychological types," such as the Myers-Briggs, the Singer-Loomis, and the Grey-Wheelright. The questionnaire identifies four temperament types. Find out which category you fall into.