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.

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.

• Recommending and arranging for diagnostic procedures, such as blood chemistry tests, saliva tests, x rays, or other imaging procedures.
• Performing a series of manual adjustments to the spine or other articulations of the body for correcting the musculoskeletal system.
• Evaluating the functioning of the neuromuscular skeletal system and the spine using systems of chiropractic diagnosis.
• Diagnosing health problems by reviewing patients’ health and medical histories, questioning, observing, and examining patients and interpreting x rays.
• Maintaining accurate case histories of patients.
• Advising patients about recommended courses of treatment.
• Obtaining and recording patients’ medical histories.
• Analyzing x rays for locating the sources of patients’ difficulties and for ruling out fractures or diseases as sources of problems.
• Counseling patients about nutrition, exercising, sleeping habits, stress management, or other matters.