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.

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.

• Sweeping, scraping, sanding, or chipping dirt and irregularities for cleaning base surfaces, correcting imperfections showing through the covering.
• Cutting flooring material for fitting around obstructions.
• Inspecting surface to be covered for ensuring that it is firm and dry.
• Trimming excess covering materials, tack edges, and joining sections of covering material for forming tight joint.
• Forming a smooth foundation by stapling plywood or Masonite over the floor or by brushing waterproof compound onto surface and filling cracks with plaster, putty, or grout for sealing pores.
• Measuring and marking guidelines on surfaces or foundations, using chalk lines and dividers.
• Cutting covering and foundation materials, according to blueprints and sketches.
• Rolling and pressing sheet wall and flooring covers into cement bases for smoothing and finishing surfaces, using hand rollers.
• Applying adhesive cement to floor or wall material for joining and adhering foundation material.