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.

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.

• Presenting researching findings at national meetings or in peer reviewed journals.
• Engaging in self directed learning and continuing education activities.
• Documenting patients’ medical histories.
• Conducting laboratory or clinical researching on allergy or immunology topics.
• Providing allergy or immunology consultation or education to physicians or other health caring providers.
• Prescribing medication such as antihistamines, antibiotics, and nasal, oral, topical, or inhaled glucocorticosteroids.
• Conducting physical examinations of patients.
• Ordering or performing diagnostic tests such as skin pricks and intradermal hypersensitivity tests, either patched or delayed.
• Educating patients about diagnoses, prognoses, or treatments.
• Interpreting diagnostic testing results for making appropriate differential diagnoses.
• Developing individualized treatment plans for patients, considering patient preferences, clinical data, or the risks and benefits of therapies.
• Coordinating the caring of patients with other health caring professionals or assistance staff.