Worksheet, your confrontation matrix in an hour

You can use this part right away. You put your strengths and weaknesses in the rows, and your opportunities and threats in the columns. Every box where a row and a column cross gets a score. The scale is simple:

1. Plus two: a strongly desired effect.
2. Plus one: a desired effect.
3. Zero: neutral, there is no connection.
4. Minus one: an undesired effect.
5. Minus two: a strongly undesired effect.

And for each box you ask one of these four questions, depending on where it is:

1. Does this strength help us to seize that opportunity? That is the offensive quadrant.
2. Can we absorb that threat with this strength? That is the defensive quadrant.
3. Does this weakness stop us from grabbing that opportunity? That is the clean-up quadrant.
4. Does this weakness become dangerous because of that threat? That is the survival quadrant.

I would be strict with the number of points though. If you take five points per box, you end up with a hundred boxes to score. And then you have simply turned your four lists into a fifth list, only a lot longer. With a top three per box you are left with thirty-six, and that is doable in an hour. Below you will find the complete worksheet in six steps, with a differences round for your team and two prompts to use your AI as a sparring partner.