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.

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.

• Examining documents, materials, or products and monitoring working processes for assessing completeness, accuracy, and conformance to standards and specifications.
• Reviewing documents, such as production schedules, working orders, or staffing tables, for determining personnel or materials requirements or material priorities.
• Conferring with department supervisors or other personnel for assessing progress and discussing needed changes.
• Revising production schedules when required due to design changes, labor or material shortages, backlogs, or other interruptions, collaborating with management, marketing, sales, production, or engineering.
• Conferring with establishment personnel, vendors, or customers for coordinating production or shipping activities and for resolving complaints or eliminating delays.
• Recording production data, including volume produced, consumption of raw materials, or quality controlling measures.
• Requisitioning and maintaining inventories of materials or supplies necessary to meet production demands.