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 supervisor should excel at:

• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment.
• Detecting or assessing problems whether real or potential.
• Monitoring and controlling resources and overseeing the spending of money.

• Managing nurseries growing horticultural plants either for selling or trading for retail customers, for display exhibition, or for researching.
• Supervising the works being done, inspecting crops, and evaluating plants and soil conditions.
• Assigning working schedules and duties to nursery or greenhouse staff, and supervising their job.
• Determining the plants growing conditions, such as greenhouses, hydroponics, or natural settings, and setting planting and caring schedules.
• Applying pesticides and fertilizers for plantings.
• Hiring employees, and training them in gardening techniques.
• Selecting and purchasing seeds, plants nutrients, disease controlling chemicals, and garden and lawn caring equipment.
• Determining types and quantities of horticultural plants to be grown, based on budgets, projected sales volumes, or executive directives.
• Explaining and enforcing safety regulations and policies.
• Positioning and regulating the plants irrigation systems, and programs environmental and irrigation controlling computers.