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.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Evaluating and grading students’ class working, laboratory working, projects, assignments, and papers.
• Initiating, facilitating, and moderating classroom discussions.
• Preparing and delivering lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as food science, nutrition, and child caring.
• Preparing course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts.
• Keeping abreast of developments in the field by reading current literature, talking with colleagues, and participating in professional conferences.
• Maintaining student attendance records, grades, and other required records.
• Planning, evaluating, and revising curricula, course content, course materials, and methods of instruction.
• Compiling, administering, and grading examinations, or assigning this working to others.
• Advising students on academic and vocational curricula and on career issues.
• Maintaining regularly scheduled office hours to advising and assisting students.