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.

• Preparing or reviewing engineering studies or specifications.
• Directing urban traffic counting programs.
• Developing or testing new methods or models of transportation analysis.
• Defining or updating information such as urban boundaries or classification of roadways.
• Reviewing development plans for transportation system effects, infrastructure requirements, or compliance with applicable transportation regulations.
• Preparing reports or recommendations on transportation planning.
• Producing environmental documents, such as environmental assessments or environmental impacts statements.
• Participating in public meetings or hearings for explaining planning proposals, to gathering feedback from those affected by projects, or for achieving consensus on project designs.
• Developing computer models for addressing transportation planning issues.
• Designing transportation surveys for identifying areas of public concern.