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 managerial duties such as hiring and training employees and overseeing facility needs or requirements.
• Maintaining and developing positive business relationships with a customer’s key personnel involved in, or directly relevant to, a logistics activity.
• Directing availability and allocation of materials, supplies, and finished products.
• Collaborating with other departments as necessary to meet customer requirements, for taking advantage of sales opportunities or, in the case of shortages, for minimizing negative impacts on a business.
• Protecting and controlling proprietary materials.
• Reviewing logistics performance with customers against targets, benchmarks, and service agreements.
• Developing and implementing technical project management tools, such as plans, schedules, and responsibility and compliance matrices.
• Directing team activities, establishing task priorities, scheduling and tracking working assignments, providing guidance, and ensuring the availability of resources.
• Reporting project plans, progress, and results.