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 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.

• Performing preventative maintenance on vehicles and heavy equipment.
• Driving heavy equipment and vehicles with adjustable attachments for sweeping debris from paved surfaces, mowing grass and weeds, removing snow and ice, and spreading salt and sand.
• Flagging motorists for warning them of obstacles or repairing working ahead.
• Setting out signs and cones around working areas to divert traffic.
• Dumping, spreading, and tamp asphalt, using pneumatic tampers, for repairing joints and patching broken pavement.
• Driving trucks for transporting crews and equipment to working sites.
• Inspecting, cleaning, and repairing drainage systems, bridges, tunnels, and other structures.
• Hauling and spreading sand, gravel, and clay for filling washouts and repairing road shoulders.
• Erecting, installing, or repairing guardrails, road shoulders, berms, highway markers, warning signals, and highway lighting, using hand tools and power tools.
• Removing litter and debris from roadways, including debris from rock and mud slides.