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 administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Monitoring tool and part inventories and the conditions and maintenance of shops for ensuring adequate working conditions.
• Inspecting and monitoring working areas, examining tools and equipment, and providing employee safety training for preventing, detecting, and correcting unsafe conditions or violations of procedures and safety rules.
• Determining schedules, sequences, and assignments for working activities, based on working priority, quantity of equipment, and skill of personnel.
• Monitoring employees’ working levels and reviewing working performance.
• Examining objects, systems, or facilities and analyzing information for determining needed installations, services, or repairs.
• Participating in budget preparation and administration, coordinating purchasing and documentation and monitoring departmental expenditures.
• Counseling employees about working related issues and assisting employees for correcting job skill deficiencies.
• Requisitioning materials and supplies, such as tools, equipment, or replacement parts.