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.

Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

• Attending to the needs of the bereaved, such as by offering comforting, counseling, or after caring programs.
• Performing various administrative tasks, such as typing documents or answering telephone calls.
• Supervising funeral processions and assisting with cemetery parking.
• Delivering floral arrangements or other items to family members of the deceased.
• Performing general maintenance tasks for funeral homes, such as maintaining equipment or caring for funeral grounds.
• Embalming, dressing, cosmeticizing, and casketing the deceased.
• Managing funeral home finances, including receiving payments, making bank deposits, or performing general bookkeeping duties.
• Obtaining doctors’ signatures on death certificate and completing other paperwork, such as insurance claims forms.
• Meeting with family members for planning the funeral.
• Greeting people at funeral homes.
• Offering assistance to mourners as they are entering or exiting limousines.
• Closing caskets at appropriate point in services.
• Obtaining burial permits and registering deaths.