CompTIA July Community Meeting and Meetup Wrap

The 10th CompTIA ANZ Channel Community meeting was held in Sydney on July 25th and the very first MeetUp was held in Melbourne on July 24th. Discussion topics at the Sydney meeting centred on cybersecurity as well as emerging opportunities for channel businesses. The guest speaker was Roger Heyes, business information security officer, Equifax A/NZ. … Continued

How to Develop Ideas for Thought Leadership Articles

Along with being a ‘Trusted Advisor’, we often hear about people or organisations being ‘Thought Leaders’. It is the individual thought leaders that help create the perception of an organisation being thought of a thought leader. If you think about it, you usually assign this label to people that you read content from or hear … Continued

A Sydney Meeting and a Melbourne MeetUp

July is a busy month for CompTIA here in ANZ. Not only are we hosting a Sydney Community meeting on July 25 but we are also holding our first MeetUp in Melbourne on July 24th. For the Sydney meeting we have made some adjustments to our usual format based on feedback from you, our community … Continued

How The Cult of the KPI Has Damaged Our Moral Compass

Going hand in hand with sales incentives are KPIs or Key Performance Indicators. I am confident everyone reading has been given a set of KPIs during their working life, all with the goal of driving certain behaviours that help get you to a particular outcome. It seems however that just like sales incentives, under certain … Continued

Wells Fargo and The Slippery Slope of Sales Incentives

Incentives are common place among sales teams, used to drive specific behaviours and or sales figures for an organisation. They can however very easily, go very wrong. The Wells Fargo case is a well publicised example of incentives going very wrong with many of the employees and the company paying the price. So how and … Continued

Why the Secret to Success is Setting the Right Goals

With such a focus on Incentives, KPIs and behaviours this month in our articles, when I stumbled across this recent TED talk by John Doerr, I thought it was too interesting not to share. John discusses the concept of OKRs (objectives and key results), rather than KPIs, and how they are a powerful tool in … Continued

The Right Way to Respond to Negative Feedback

Most people don’t enjoy receiving negative feedback, whether it’s about themselves, their organisation or their team. Yet everybody enjoys being successful. The problem is that the negative feedback can offer information that will enable you to achieve a higher level of success. It could be said that negative feedback can be both constructive and highly … Continued

CompTIA Webinars and Community Meetings

The year is racing by and CompTIA is showing no signs of slowing down in terms of the activities and programs for the ANZ Community. We’ve got four events over the next 2 months to keep you engaged, informed and entertained:  * Webinar #1 – Risk Management and Threat Hunting  * Webinar #2 – Corporate … Continued

5 Tips for Dealing With Stress at Work

Stress is a part of life… we have all experienced it and managed it (some better than others) in one way or another. When it comes to managing work stress there are many methods you can utilise to bring it under control but it seems that keeping your approach simple is probably the best thing … Continued