Mediators should be capable of:

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests.
• Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others.

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.

• Consulting with buying personnel for gaining advising regarding environmentally sound or sustainable products.
• Developing business cases for environmental marketing strategies.
• Integrating environmental information into product or company marketing strategies, policies, or activities.
• Recommending modifications to products, packaging, production processes, or other characteristics for improving the environmental soundness or sustainability of products.
• Formulating, directing, or coordinating marketing activities or policies for promoting products or services, working with advertising or promotion managers.
• Developing pricing strategies, balancing firm objectives and customer satisfaction.
• Identifying, developing, or evaluating marketing strategy, based on knowledge of establishment objectives, market characteristics, and costs and markup factors.
• Evaluating the financial aspects of product development, such as budgets, expenditures, researching and development appropriations, or returning on investment and profit loss projections.