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.

Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

• Providing a variety of materials and resources for children for exploring, manipulating, and using, both in learning activities and in imaginative playing.
• Attending to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, and changing their diapers.
• Teaching basic skills, such as colors, shapes, numbers and letters recognition, personal hygiene, and social skills.
• Establishing and enforcing rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order.
• Reading books to entire classes or to small groups.
• Organizing and leading activities designed for promoting physical, mental, and social development, such as games, arts and crafts, music, storytelling, and field trips.
• Observing and evaluating children’s performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Identifying children showing signs of emotional, developmental, or health related problems and discussing them with supervisors, parents or guardians, and child development specialists.