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.

• Managing schedules and setting dates, times, and locations for meetings and appointments.
• Checking completed working for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and format.
• Performing other clerical duties such as answering telephone, sorting and distributing mail, running errands or sending faxes.
• Gathering, registering, and arranging the material to be typed, following instructions.
• Typing correspondence, reports, text and other written material from rough drafts, corrected copies, voice recordings, dictation or previous versions, using a computer, word processor, or typewriter.
• Filing and storing completed documents on computer hard driving or disk, or maintaining a computer filing system for storing, retrieving, updating and deleting documents.
• Printing and making copies of working.
• Keeping records of working performed.
• Computing and verifying totals on reports forms, requisitions, or bills, using adding machine or calculator.
• Collate pages of reports and other documents prepared.