Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

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.

• Cutting and file pieces of jewelry such as rings, brooches, bracelets, and lockets.
• Soldering parts together or filling holes and cracks with metal solder, using gas torches.
• Polishing articles by hand or by using a polishing wheel.
• Piercing and cutting multiple designs in ornamentation, using hand drills and scroll saws.
• Positioning and aligning auxiliary parts in jigs and joining parts, using solder and blowtorches.
• Examining articles for determining the nature of defects requiring repairing, such as dents, uneven bottoms, scratches, or holes.
• Shaping and straightening damaged or twisted articles by hand or using pliers.
• Annealing precious metal objects such as coffeepots, tea sets, and trays in gas ovens for prescribed times for softening metal for reworking.
• Rotating molds to distributing alloys and for preventing formation of air pockets.
• Weighing and mixing alloy ingredients, using formulas and knowledge of ingredients’ chemical properties.
• Carrying castings or finished items to storage areas or to different working stations.