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.

• Establishing and maintaining relationships with other agencies and organizations in community to meet community needs and for ensuring that services are not duplicated.
• Preparing and maintaining records and reports, such as budgets, personnel records, or training manuals.
• Directing activities of professional and technical staff members and volunteers.
• Evaluating the working of staff and volunteers for ensuring that programs are of appropriate quality and that resources are used effectively.
• Establishing and overseeing administrative procedures to meet objectives setting by boards of directors or senior management.
• Participating in the determination of organizational policies regarding such issues as participant eligibility, programs requirements, and programs benefits.
• Researching and analyzing member or community needs for determining the directions and goals of the programs.
• Speaking to community groups for explaining and interpreting agency purposes, programs, and policies.