Alex Martynov Blog

Photo by Gera Cejas on Pexels Solving many professional challenges requires a special type of attention.

Photo by Goran Vučićević on Unsplash When she gives a talk, a coach and author, Martha Beck, sometimes asks people in the audience whether they are sitting comfortably.

Photo by zhang kaiyv: Pexels Reading time 25 minutes Introduction There are different modalities of thinking.

Image by Javier Calvo Parapar from Pixabay Some time ago there was a day when I was feeling shitty.

My Interest in T-groups I was interested in groups pretty early in my coaching journey.

Photo by Robert Clark on Pexels In the previous blog I wrote about some of the most common complexity anti-patterns.

Photo by Ming Sun on Pexels In this blog, I want to offer an overview of the themes distilled from different literature that can be considered anti-patterns when we deal with complexity.

Photo by Tony Phan on Unsplash Some time ago I was reading a post from a fellow coach where she shared how well her year went financially and about how awesome and high-status her clients were.

Photo by Min An from Pexels In a recent coaching conversation a client mentioned a situation where his colleague had a bad breath.

Photo by Ana Vieira on Pexels Introduction After I spent almost a decade helping people develop their soft skills as a trainer and coach, I gathered some of the observations and generalizations I want to share.