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.

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.

• Installing, maintaining, and repairing fixed and mobile radar, navigational aids, weather systems and radios.
• Evaluating and resolving problems to the appropriate systems.
• Directing maintenance inspection teams.
• Establishing working standards, methods and safety guidelines.
• Performing technical and quality controlling inspections.
• Preparing and maintaining equipment logs, equipment modification and utilization records, exchanging tags and calibration data cards.