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.

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.

• Arranging indoor or outdoor spaces for facilitating creative playing, motor skill activities, or safety.
• Attending to children’s basic needs by feeding them, dressing them, or changing their diapers.
• Communicating nonverbally with children for providing them with comforting, encouragement, or positive reinforcement.
• Conferring with parents, guardians, teachers, counselors, or administrators for resolving students’ behavioral or academic problems.
• Developing individual educational plans (ieps) designed for promoting students’ educational, physical, or social development.
• Developing or implementing strategies to meet the needs of students with a variety of disabilities.
• Employing special educational strategies or techniques during instruction for improving the development of sensory and perceptual motor skills, language, cognition, or memory.
• Encouraging students for exploring learning opportunities or persevere with challenging tasks to preparing them for later grades.