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.

Any mentor is expected to perform well at:

• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing others.

• Transferring photographs to computers for editing, archiving, and electronic transmission.
• Writing captions for photographs.
• Taking pictures of individuals, families, and small groups, either in studio or on location.
• Adjusting apertures, shutter speeds, and camera focus according to a combination of factors, such as lighting, field depth, subject motion, film types, and film speeds.
• Using traditional or digital cameras, along with a variety of equipment, such as tripods, filters, and flash attachments.
• Creating artificial light, using flashes and reflectors.
• Determining desired images and picture composition, selecting and adjusting subjects, equipment, and lighting for achieving desired effects.
• Testing equipment prior to using for ensuring that it is in good working order.
• Reviewing sets of photographs for selecting the best working.
• Estimating or measuring light levels, distances, and numbers of exposures needed, using measuring devices and formulas.