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.

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.

• Marking or discarding items with defects such as spots, stains, scars, snags, chips, scratches, or unacceptable shapes or finishes.
• Trimming excess material or cutting threads off finished products, such as cutting loose ends of plastic off a manufactured toy for a smoother finishing.
• Cutting, shaping, and trimming materials, such as textiles, food, glass, stone, and metal, using knives, scissors, and other hand tools, portable power tools, or bench mounted tools.
• Separating materials or products according to sizes, weights, types, conditions, colors, or shades.
• Marking identification numbers, trademarks, grades, marketing data, sizes, or model numbers on products.
• Reading working orders for determining dimensions, cutting locations, and quantities to cutting.
• Counting or weighing and bundling items.
• Marking cutting lines around patterns or templates, or following layout points, using squares, rules, and straightedges, and chalk, pencils, or scribes.
• Unrolling, laying out, attaching, or mounting materials or items on cutting tables or machines.