Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

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.

• Applying cosmetics to impart lifelike appearance to the deceased.
• Incising stomach and abdominal walls and probe internal organs, using trocar, to withdraw blood and waste matter from organs.
• Closing incisions, using needles and sutures.
• Reshaping or reconstructing disfigured or maimed bodies when necessary, using dermasurgery techniques and materials such as clay, cotton, plaster of Paris, and wax.
• Making incisions in arms or thighs and draining blood from circulatory system and replacing it with embalming fluid, using pumps.
• Performing the duties of funeral directors, including coordinating funeral activities.
• Joining lips, using needles and threads or wires.
• Attaching trocar to pumping tubes, starting pumps, and repeating probing for forcing embalming fluid into organs.
• Performing special procedures necessary for remains that are to be transported to other states or overseas, or where death was caused by infectious disease.
• Maintaining records, such as itemized lists of clothing or valuables delivered with body and names of persons embalmed.