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.

Controllers are expected to be good at:

• Using either control mechanisms or direct physical activity to operate manufacturing systems.
• Working with hand operated industrial machines and power tools.
• Adjusting knobs, levers, and physical or touch sensitive buttons in industrial devices.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

• Oiling moving parts of timepieces.
• Repairing or replacing broken, damaged, or worn parts on timepieces, using lathes, drill presses, and hand tools.
• Cleaning, rinsing, and drying timepiece parts, using solutions and ultrasonic or mechanical watch cleaning machines.
• Disassembling timepieces and inspecting them for defective, worn, misaligned, or rusty parts, using loupes.
• Reassembling timepieces, replacing glass faces and batteries, before returning them to customers.
• Testing timepiece accuracy and performance, using meters and other electronic instruments.
• Fabricating parts for watches and clocks, using small lathes and other machines.
• Estimating repairing costs and timepiece values.
• Performing regular adjustment and maintenance on timepieces, watch cases, and watch bands.
• Adjusting timing regulators, using truing calipers, watch rate recorders, and tweezers.
• Recording quantities and types of timepieces repaired, serial and model numbers of items, working performed, and charges for repairs.