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.

• Directing activities related to dispatching, routing, or tracking transportation vehicles, such as aircraft or railroad cars.
• Planning, organizing, or managing the working of subordinate staff for ensuring that the working is accomplished in a manner consistent with organizational requirements.
• Serving as contact persons for all workers within assigned territories.
• Collaborating with other managers or staff members for formulating and implementing policies, procedures, goals, or objectives.
• Promoting safe working activities by conducting safety audits, attending company safety meetings, or meeting with individual staff members.
• Developing criteria, application instructions, procedural manuals, or contracts for federal or state public transportation programs.
• Monitoring spending for ensuring that expenses are consistent with approved budgets.
• Analyzing expenditures and other financial information for developing plans, policies, or budgets for increasing profits or improving services.