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.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Checking for ensuring that completed roofs are watertight.
• Sweeping and cleaning roofs to preparing them for the application of new roofing materials.
• Locating worn or torn areas in roofs.
• Cleaning working areas and equipment.
• Maintaining tools and equipment.
• Covering roofs with layers of roofing felt or asphalt strips before installing tiles, slates, or composition materials.
• Removing old roofing materials.
• Unloading materials and tools from working trucks, and unrolling roofing as directed.
• Setting ladders, scaffolds, and hoists in place for taking supplies to roofs.
• Placing tiles, nailing them to roof boards, and covering nailheads with roofing cement.
• Providing assistance to skilled roofers installing and repairing roofs, flashings, and surfaces.
• Attaching roofing paper and composition shingles, using nails.
• Performing emergency leak repairs and general maintenance for a variety of roof types.
• Attaching sheets of metal to roof boards or building frameworks when installing metal roofs.