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.

Technicians will often be asked these tasks:

• Providing documentation, detailed instructions, drawings, or specifications to tell others about how devices, parts, equipment, or structures are to be fabricated, constructed, assembled, modified, maintained, or used.
• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Servicing, repairing, calibrating, regulating, fine-tuning, or testing machines, devices, and equipment that operate primarily on the basis of electrical or electronic (not mechanical) principles.

• Reviewing papers or serving on editorial boards for scientific journals, and reviewing grant proposals for various agencies.
• Supervising undergraduate or graduate teaching, internship, and researching working.
• Conducting researching in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.
• Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory working, assignments, and papers.
• Writing grant proposals for procuring external researching funding.
• Supervising students’ laboratory and field working.
• Preparing course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Planning, evaluating, and revising curricula, course content, and course materials and methods of instruction.
• Initiating, facilitating, and moderating classroom discussions.
• Compiling, administering, and grading examinations, or assigning this working to others.