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.

• Placing appliances onto patients and making any necessary adjustments.
• Making orthotic or prosthetic devices, using materials such as thermoplastic and thermosetting materials, metal alloys and leather, and hand or power tools.
• Reading prescriptions or specifications for determining the types of product or device to be fabricated and the materials and tools that will be required.
• Repairing, modifying, or maintaining medical supportive devices, such as artificial limbs, braces, or surgical supports, according to specifications.
• Taking patients’ body or limb measurements for using in device construction.
• Constructing or receiving casts or impressions of patients’ torsos or limbs for using as cutting and fabrication patterns.
• Bending, forming, and shaping fabric or material to conform to prescribed contours of structural components.
• Drilling and tapping holes for rivets and gluing, welding, bolting, or riveting parts together, forming prosthetic or orthotic devices.
• Laying out and marking dimensions of parts, using templates and precision measuring instruments.