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.

• Conferring with parents and staff for discussing educational activities and policies and students’ behavioral or learning problems.
• Preparing and maintaining attendance, activity, planning, accounting, or personnel reports and recordings for officials and agencies, or directing preparation and maintenance activities.
• Setting educational standards and goals, helping in establishing policies, procedures, and programs for carrying them out.
• Monitoring students’ progress and providing students and teachers with assistance in resolving any problems.
• Determining allocations of funds for staff, supplies, materials, and equipment and authorizing purchases.
• Recruiting, hiring, training, and evaluating primary and supplemental staff and recommending personnel actions for programs and services.
• Directing and coordinating activities of teachers or administrators at daycare centers, schools, public agencies, or institutions.
• Planning, directing, and monitoring instructional methods and content of educational, vocational, or student activity programs.