Most strategists should excel at:

• Establishing long-range objectives and specifying the strategies and actions to achieve them.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others.

Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Notifying regulatory or permitting agencies of deviations from implemented remediation plans.
• Developing environmental restoration project schedules and budgets.
• Developing and communicating recommendations for landowners for maintaining or restoring environmental conditions.
• Creating diagrams for communicating environmental remediation planning, using geographic information systems (GIS), computer aided design (CAD), or other mapping or diagramming software.
• Applying for permits required for the implementation of environmental remediation projects.
• Reviewing existing environmental remediation designs.
• Supervising and providing technical guidance, training, or assistance to employees working in the field to restoring habitats.
• Providing technical direction on environmental planning to energy engineers, biologists, geologists, or other professionals working for developing restoration plans or strategies.