Personal & Professional Development Community | Pulled in Every Direction: Practical Tools for Clearer Decisions at Work and in Life

If your workday often feels like a steady stream of competing priorities, changing expectations, limited resources, and decisions that all seem to matter at once, you are not imagining it.  ATD’s 2026 State of the Industry research reflects that reality: 46% of talent development professionals identify prioritizing multiple demands as one of their top three challenges, 33% cite scaling with few resources, and 27% point to coping with the pace of change.

The question is not how to make the complexity disappear. It is how to navigate it without feeling pulled in every direction.

In this highly interactive Community of Practice session, we will work with two practical tools designed to help you make clearer decisions when the answer is not obvious. One will help you recognize the personal beliefs, pressures, or assumptions that may be shaping your choices. The other will help you sort through competing demands and decide what deserves your attention, what can wait, and what may need to be renegotiated or declined.

Bring a real decision or challenge you are currently facing. We will use the session to work through the kinds of situations you are actually dealing with, so you leave with a clearer way to think, decide, and move forward.

Participants will leave with:

• A way to notice what is influencing their decisions besides the actual facts — for example, the need to please, fear of disappointing someone, pressure to prove themselves, or the belief that they should be able to handle everything.

• A practical tool for sorting through competing demands at work — so they can decide what needs attention now, what can wait, what can be delegated, and what may need to be renegotiated or declined.

• A simple process for making decisions and moving forward without continually second-guessing themselves — at work and in their personal lives.

About Your Speaker: 

Isla Reddin, Corporate Performance Coach

Isla Reddin is a corporate performance coach passionate about bringing diverse tools and strategies to support individuals and teams to grow and reach their desired goals. Her background in curriculum design, training, and project management informs her coaching practice. Isla believes new tools and paradigms of learning need to be constantly created to meet the needs of individuals and society.

In her early career, Isla supported global sales, media, and PR events for international automotive, pharmaceutical, and financial services companies. In the past 15 years, she has worked in Europe and the US as a consultant and corporate performance coach with multiple clients, and as an entrepreneur in the tech, and education spaces. She understands how to help leaders and teams handle the diverse challenges they face with practical, creative, and flexible solutions.