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.

• Monitoring field working for ensuring proper performance and using of materials.
• Enforcing safety rules and regulations.
• Planning working assignments and equipment allocations to meet transportation, operations or production goals.
• Conferring with customers, supervisors, contractors, or other personnel for exchanging information or for resolving problems.
• Directing workers in transportation or related services, such as pumping, moving, storing, or loading or unloading of materials or people.
• Resolving worker problems or collaborate with employees to assisting in problem resolution.
• Reviewing orders, production schedules, blueprints, or shipping or receiving notices for determining working sequences and material shipping dates, types, volumes, or destinations.
• Recommending and implementing measures for improving worker motivation, equipment performance, working methods, or customer services.
• Maintaining or verifying records of time, materials, expenditures, or crew activities.