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 supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Changing processes such as drying, grading, storing, or shipping for improving efficiency or profitability.
• Determining types or quantities of crops or livestock to be raised, according to factors such as market conditions, federal programs or incentives, or soil conditions.
• Directing crop production operations, such as planning, tilling, planting, fertilizing, cultivating, spraying, or harvesting.
• Directing the breeding or raising of stocks, such as cattle, poultry, or honeybees, using recognized breeding practices for ensuring stocks improvement.
• Evaluating marketing or sales alternatives for farm or ranch products.
• Hiring, training, or supervising workers engaged in planting, cultivating, irrigating, harvesting, or marketing crops, or in raising livestock.
• Inspecting farm or ranch structures, such as buildings, fences, or roads, ordering repairing or maintenance activities, as needed.
• Maintaining financial, operational, production, or employment records for farms or ranches.