Any supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

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.

• Compiling and maintaining records on personnel, accidents, equipment, and supplies.
• Performing maintenance and minor repairs on firefighting equipment, including vehicles, and writing and submitting proposals to modifying, replacing, and repairing equipment.
• Assigning firefighters to jobs at strategic locations for facilitating rescuing of persons and maximizing application of extinguishing agents.
• Providing emergency medical services as required, and performing light to heavy rescuing functions at emergencies.
• Assessing nature and extent of fires, conditions of buildings, dangers to adjacent buildings, and the status of the water supplies for determining crew or company requirements.
• Instructing and drilling fire department personnel in assigned duties, including firefighting, medical caring, hazardous materials response, fire prevention, and related subjects.
• Evaluating the performance of assigned firefighting personnel.
• Directing the training of firefighters, assigning of instructors to training classes, and providing of supervisors with reports on training progress and status.