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.

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.

• Computing loading and grading requirements, water flow rates, or material stress factors for determining design specifications.
• Inspecting project sites for monitoring progress and ensuring conformance to design specifications and safety or sanitation standards.
• Directing or participating in surveying for laying out installations or establishing reference points, grades, or elevations for guiding construction.
• Estimating quantities and cost of materials, equipment, or labor for determining project feasibility.
• Preparing or presenting public reports on topics such as bid proposals, deeds, environmental impacts statements, or property and right of way descriptions.
• Testing soils or materials for determining the adequacy and strength of foundations, concrete, asphalt, or steel.
• Conducting studies of traffic patterns or environmental conditions for identifying engineering problems and assessing potential project impacts.
• Analyzing manufacturing processes or byproducts for identifying engineering solutions for minimizing the output of carbon or other pollutants.