Visual SWOT brings clarity to project managers

Ever feel like your project strategy makes sense in your head but falls apart when you try to explain it to others?

Tuba KIZILKAN has, too. That's why she created a SWOT mind map template. It contains branches for each of the four forces that may be affecting you or your business:

• Strengths

• Weaknesses

• Opportunities

• Threats

As you can see from the screenshot below, you can easily add details to each of the four branches, outlining your challenges and your ideas for solving them.

Like any mind map, you can add as many levels of details as you need to develop a complete understanding of your situation and potential strategies for improving it.

Tuba doesn't mention this in her Substack post, but building a SWOT analysis in a mind map also gives you several other advantages:

• You can prioritize the challenges and ideas you add to your map using either number or letter icons

• You can capture background information in topic notes. Most of the time, these are hidden from view, their presence denoted by a small icon. But when you need to read them, you can expand them with a single click.

• Most mind mapping tools enable you to attach files to any map topic. This makes it easy to capture and organize supporting information, research and other data to support your analysis.

If you are intrigued by this mind map template, you can get your hands on it by requesting it from Tuba.