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.

Analyzers will often perform the following tasks:

• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Assessing the value, importance, or quality of things or people.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.

• Tracking delivery progress of shipments.
• Notifying consignees, passengers, or customers of freight or baggage arrival and arranging for delivery.
• Checking import or export documentation for determining cargo contents and using tariff coding system for classifying goods according to fee or tariff group.
• Preparing manifests showing numbers of airplane passengers and baggage, mail, and freight weights, transmitting data to destinations.
• Contacting vendors or claims adjustment departments for resolving shipment problems or contacting servicing depots for arranging any repairs.
• Negotiating and arranging transportation of goods with shipping or freighting companies.
• Advising clients on transportation and payment methods.
• Determining method of shipment and preparing bills of lading, invoices, and other shipping documents.
• Estimating freight or postal rates and recording shipment costs and weights.
• Entering shipping information into a computer by hand or by a hand held scanner that reads bar codes on goods.