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.

• Answering phone calls and directing calls to appropriate parties or taking messages.
• Performing general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping working.
• Preparing agendas and making arrangements, such as coordinating catering for luncheons, for committee, board, and other meetings.
• Coordinating and directing office services, such as records, departmental finances, budget preparation, personnel issues, and housekeeping, for aiding executives.
• Processing payroll information.
• Supervising and training other clerical staff and arranging for employee training by scheduling training or organizing training material.
• Preparing invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
• Reading and analyzing incoming memos, submissions, and reports for determining their significance and planning their distribution.