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.

• Evaluating job positions, determining classification, exempt or nonexempt status, and salary.
• Ensuring company compliance with federal and state laws, including reporting requirements.
• Advising managers and employees on state and federal employment regulations, collective agreements, benefit and compensation policies, personnel procedures, and classification programs.
• Planning, developing, evaluating, improving, and communicating methods and techniques for selecting, promoting, compensating, evaluating, and training workers.
• Providing advices on the resolution of classification and salary complaints.
• Preparing occupational classifications, job descriptions, and salary scales.
• Preparing reports, such as organization and flow charts, and career path reports for summarizing job analysis and evaluation and compensation analysis information.
• Administering employee insurance, pension and savings plans, working with insurance brokers and plans carriers.