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.

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.

• Using gestures for shaping the music being played, communicating desired tempo, phrasing, tone, color, pitch, volume, and other performance aspects.
• Directing groups at rehearsals and live or recorded performances for achieving desired effects such as tonal and harmonic balance dynamics, rhythm, and tempo.
• Planning and scheduling rehearsals and performances, and arranging details such as locations, accompanists, and instrumentalists.
• Considering such factors as ensemble size and abilities, availability of scores, and the need for musical variety, for selecting music to be performed.
• Studying scores to learning the music in detail, and for developing interpretations.
• Positioning members within groups for obtaining balance among instrumental or vocal sections.
• Conferring with clergy for selecting music for church services.
• Transcribing musical compositions and melodic lines to adapt them to a particular group, or for creating a particular musical style.