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.

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.

• Applying green building strategies for reducing energy costs or minimizing carbon output or other sources of harm to the environment.
• Developing construction budgets for comparing green and non-green construction alternatives, in terms of short-term costs, long term costs, or environmental impacts.
• Developing or implementing environmental protection programs.
• Implementing training programs on environmentally responsible building topics for updating employee skills and knowledge.
• Inspecting or reviewing projects for monitoring compliance with environmental regulations.
• Performing, or contract others to performing, pre building assessments, such as conceptual cost estimating, rough order of magnitude estimating, feasibility, or energy efficiency, environmental, and sustainability assessments.
• Securing third party verification from sources such as Leadership in Energy Efficient Designing (LEED) for ensuring responsible design and building activities or for achieving favorable LEED ratings for building projects.