Can someone provide examples on what I would do? I'm completely lost.

Week 3 - Course Project Part 2: Planning - the future of YOU.com Remember: The project requires you to think of yourself as a private business (YOU.com) for which you are responsible as the owner/manager. Purpose of Part 2. In this week's reading, you will learn about the external forces and trends that can be considered as opportunities or threats to an organization. External forces are typically categorized as political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental to make it easier for managers to track, collate and analyze information for strategic planning and decision making ((you may see this referred to in future as PEST or PESTLE analysis). Managers also have to monitor competitors and what they are up to. Additionally, they need to know what is going on inside their own organization and they use a variety of measures to determine the organization's internal strengths and weaknesses. You will learn more about internal measures as part of the controlling function later in the course. For now, it's important that to understand that as part of the planning function, managers try to leverage internal strengths with external opportunities and minimize internal weaknesses and external threats in a process known as SWOT analysis. This part of the project will develop your skills in both PESTLE and SWOT analysis so that you become a more competent planner. Description . Complete a PESTLE analysis by identifying at least one external political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental trend that might impact you and your work life in the future (Remember, you learned about this in Chapter 3). Identify if each of the forces or trends is an opportunity or a threat