Workshop: Beyond Compliance: Leading Through Influence and Understanding | Facilitated By David Watts

2.30pm – 3.45pm ACST, 2 July 2026 ‐ 1 hour 15 mins

SPOTLIGHT | An Interactive Roundtable Workshop

In information management, success is often measured by accuracy, compliance, and control. Yet many of the biggest challenges; resistance to processes, cross-team friction, and lack of engagement, are not technical problems, rather they are human ones.

This interactive session introduces a practical framework for understanding behavioural styles and how they influence communication, decision-making, and collaboration.

Drawing on DISC principles, participants will explore why some colleagues prioritise rules and structure, while others focus on innovation, speed, or relationships, and how these differences can create both tension and opportunity.

Through guided discussion and table-based activities, attendees will learn how to adapt their communication approach, ask better questions, and reduce friction when working across teams such as IT, governance, and business units.

Importantly, the session is designed to deliver practical, next-day application. Participants will leave with simple tools to:

This session is ideal for information managers, records professionals, and document controllers who want to increase their impact; not just through what they know, but through how they engage others.