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.

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.

• Assisting ophthalmologists in diagnostic ophthalmic procedures, such as ultrasonography, fundus photography, and tonometry.
• Providing nonsurgical interventions, including corrective lenses, patches, drops, fusion exercises, or stereograms, for treating conditions such as strabismus, heterophoria, and convergence insufficiency.
• Developing nonsurgical treatment plans for patients with conditions such as strabismus, nystagmus, and other visual disorders.
• Performing diagnostic tests or measurements, such as motor testing, visual acuity testing, lensometry, retinoscopy, and color vision testing.
• Examining patients with problems related to ocular motility, binocular vision, amblyopia, or strabismus.
• Evaluating, diagnosing, or treating disorders of the visual system with an emphasis on binocular vision or abnormal eye movements.
• Interpreting clinical or diagnostic testing results.
• Providing instructions to patients or family members concerning diagnoses or treatment plans.