Any mentor is expected to perform well at:

• Identifying the developmental needs of others and coaching, mentoring, or otherwise helping others to improve their knowledge or skills.
• Providing guidance and direction to subordinates, including setting performance standards and monitoring performance.
• Convincing others to accept and idea or to otherwise change their minds or actions in accordance to the companies objectives.
• Identifying the educational needs of others, developing formal educational or training programs or classes, and teaching or instructing 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.

• Analyzing and understanding the local and national implications of proposed legislation.
• Appointing nominees to leadership posts, or approving such appointments.
• Conferring with colleagues for formulating positions and strategies pertaining to pending issues.
• Developing expertise in subject matters related to committee assignments.
• Keeping abreast of the issues affecting constituents by making personal visits and phone calls, reading local newspapers, and viewing or listening to local broadcasts.
• Maintaining knowledge of relevant national and international current events.
• Negotiating with colleagues or members of other political parties for reconciling differing interests, and creating policies and agreements.
• Preparing drafts of amendments, government policies, laws, rules, regulations, budgets, programs and procedures.
• Reading and reviewing the concerns of constituents or the general public and determining if governmental action is required.
• Representing their parties in negotiations with political executives or members of other parties, and when speaking with the media.