Great artisans are usually capable of:

• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials.
• Performing precise and skillful manipulation of small objects.
• Being active and proactive in regards to physical activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.

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.

• Cutting out parts, following patterns or outlines, using knives, shears, scissors, or machine presses.
• Constructing, decorating, or repairing leather products according to specifications, using sewing machines, needles and threads, leather laces, glues, clamps, hand tools, or rivets.
• Aligning and stitching or gluing materials such as fabric, fleece, leather, or wood, for joining the parts.
• Dye, soaking, polishing, painting, stamping, stitching, staining, buffing, or engraving leather or other materials for obtaining the desired effects, decorations, or shapes.
• Selecting materials and patterns, and tracing patterns onto materials for cutting them out.
• Dressing and otherwise finishing boots or shoes, as by trimming the edges of new soles and heels to the shoe shapes.
• Estimating the costs of requested products or services such as custom footwear or footwear repairing, and receiving payment from customers.
• Attaching insoles to shoe lasts, affixing shoe uppers, and applying heels and outsoles.
• Cementing, nailing, or sewing soles and heels to shoes.
• Shaping shoe heels with a knife, and sanding them on a buffing wheel for smoothness.