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.

Inspectors should be great at:

• Estimating sizes, distances, and quantities; or determining time, costs, resources, or materials needed to perform a work activity.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Inspecting equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.

• Monitoring contract compliance and results of forestry activities for assuring adherence to government regulations.
• Establishing short and long term plans for management of forest lands and forest resources.
• Supervising activities of other forestry workers.
• Choosing and preparing sites for new trees, using controlled burning, bulldozers, or herbicides for clearing weeds, brush, and logging debris.
• Planning and supervising forestry projects, such as determining the types, number and placement of trees to be planted, managing tree nurseries, thinning forest and monitoring growth of new seedlings.
• Directing, and participating in, forest fire suppression.
• Determining methods of cutting and removing timber with minimum waste and environmental damage.
• Analyzing effect of forest conditions on tree growth rates and tree species prevalence and the yield, duration, seed production, growth viability, and germination of different species.