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Applying Techniques to Address Procrastination in the Workplace 149

Take stock of where you are in your career, where you’d like to
head, and what you need to do to improve your chances for achieving
your career goals. Here are a few questions to start the process:

• Are you currently in the right job and at the right level for
your experience and talent?
• What is your potential for assuming additional responsi-
bilities, and at what level?
• Would you need to prepare yourself now for either lateral or
hierarchical advancement?
• What barriers are likely to be in the way, such as procras-
tination?

Your SWLO Analysis to Discover Productive
Capabilities and Procrastination Hot Spots

Believing that you have work resources that you can rely upon
increases job satisfaction. The bottom line is: you’ll work produc-
tively where you align your talents and interests with a job and
where you stretch to advance where you do best.
A strengths, weaknesses, limitations, and opportunities analy-
sis (SWLO) is a strategic planning tool that organizations apply to
position themselves to put their resources to the best use. You can
use this method to focus your efforts on reducing procrastination
by boosting your productive capabilities.
By visibly organizing information about your work resources,
you’ll find more opportunities to execute them. Using SWLO as a
system to frame information about what you have going for you
and what you can profitably avoid, you can sharpen your judgment
about (1) whether you are on the right career track, (2) skills that
you could transfer to a new job, and (3) strengths and talents that
productively support organizational goals.
To complete the analysis, start with the three most important
conditions for each area. Long lists invite procrastination. An ex-
ample of such an analysis is given in Table 7.1.