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.

Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

• Administering anesthetic or sedation during medical procedures, using local, intravenous, spinal, or caudal methods.
• Monitoring patient before, during, and after anesthesia and counteract adverse reactions or complications.
• Providing and maintaining life supports and airway management and helping in preparing patients for emergency surgery.
• Recording types and amount of anesthesia and patient conditions throughout procedure.
• Examining patient, obtaining medical history, and using diagnostic tests for determining risk during surgical, obstetrical, and other medical procedures.
• Positioning patient on operating table for maximizing patient comfortability and surgical accessibility.
• Deciding when patients have recovered or stabilized enough to be sent to another room or ward or to be sent home following outpatient surgery.
• Coordinating administration of anesthetics with surgeons during operation.
• Conferring with other medical professionals for determining types and method of anesthetic or sedation for rendering patient insensible to pain.