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 administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

• Overseeing recycling pickup or dropoff programs for ensuring compliance with community ordinances.
• Supervising recycling technicians, community service workers, or other recycling operations employees or volunteers.
• Assigning truck drivers or recycling technicians to routes.
• Coordinating recycling collection schedules for optimizing service and efficiency.
• Coordinating shipments of recycling materials with shipping brokers or processing companies.
• Creating or managing recycling operations budgets.
• Designing community solid and hazardous waste management programs.
• Developing community or corporate recycling plans and goals for minimizing waste and conform to resource constraints.
• Implementing grant funded projects, monitoring and reporting progress in accordance with sponsoring agency requirements.
• Making presentations to educate the public on how to recycle or on the environmental advantages of recycling.
• Operating fork lifts, skidding loaders, or trucks for moving or storing recyclable materials.