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.

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.

• Examining patients for obtaining information about their physical conditions.
• Interpreting diagnostic testing results for deviations from normal.
• Making tentative diagnoses and decisions about management and treatment of patients.
• Obtaining, compiling and recording patient medical data, including health history, progress notes and results of physical examination.
• Administering or order diagnostic tests, such as x ray, electrocardiogram, and laboratory tests.
• Prescribing therapy or medication with physician approval.
• Performing therapeutic procedures, such as injections, immunizations, suturing and wound caring, and infection management.
• Instructing and counseling patients about prescribed therapeutic regimens, normal growth and development, family planning, emotional problems of daily living, and health maintenance.
• Providing physicians with assistance during surgery or complicated medical procedures.
• Supervising and coordinating activities of technicians and technical assistants.