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.

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.

• Sorting tree seedlings, discarding substandard seedlings, according to standard charts or verbal instructions.
• Checking equipment for ensuring that it is operating properly.
• Conferring with other workers for discussing issues such as safety, cutting heights, or working needs.
• Fighting forest fires or performing prescribed burning tasks under the direction of fire suppression officers or forestry technicians.
• Performing fire protection or suppression duties, such as constructing fire breaks or disposing of brush.
• Selecting or cutting trees according to markings or sizes, types, or grades.
• Identifying diseased or undesirable trees and removing them, using power saws or hand saws.
• Spraying or injecting vegetation with insecticides to kill insects or for protecting against disease or with herbicides for reducing competing vegetation.
• Dragging cutting trees from cutting areas and loading trees onto trucks.
• Thinning or spacing trees, using power thinning saws.
• Maintaining tallies of trees examined and counted during tree marking or measuring efforts.