Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

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.

• Writing reports for summarizing testing activities, including descriptions of goals, planning, scheduling, execution, results, analysis, conclusions, and recommendations.
• Maintaining and updating organization information technology applications and network systems blueprints.
• Interpreting government regulations and applicable codes for ensuring compliance.
• Identifying individual or transaction targets for directing the intelligence collection.
• Designing or implementing products and services to mitigate risk or facilitating using of technology based tools and methods.
• Creating business continuity and disaster recovery budgets.
• Creating or administering training and awareness presentations or materials.
• Attending professional meetings, reading literature, and participating in training or other educational offerings for keeping abreast of new developments and technologies related to disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Reviewing existing disaster recovery, crisis management, or business continuity plans.