• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer
  • Home
  • About the Trench Life Blog
  • Contact Us
  • Trench Humour
  • Trench Recommendations
Trench Life

Trench Life

A blog for young professionals navigating careers in the trenches!

Featured

Photo of Eminem performing

Avoiding Tears and Tantrums: Giving Negative Feedback Like a Pro

Mark Atkinson
December 14, 2022

You’ll never forget the first time someone bursts into tears when hearing your feedback. If you care about your teams, there are few worse feelings in the world. For this reason, many of us shy away from delivering critical feedback. Unfortunately – as most of us soon find out – this only makes things worse…

Click to continue Avoiding Tears and Tantrums: Giving Negative Feedback Like a Pro

Trench Life: A blog FOR young professionals, BY young professionals

Explore

Career Myths - decorative image

3 Popular Career Myths – Fact or Fairytale?

As I continue to progress through my career, I have uncovered that there are a few things we have been taught about…

Continue Reading 3 Popular Career Myths – Fact or Fairytale?

Travel - leap of faith - moving overseas

Taking the Leap of Faith – Why You Should Live Overseas for a Year

Travel has a way of bringing great fulfilment to our lives. If you’ve ever traveled to another country, you’ve broadened your horizons…

Continue Reading Taking the Leap of Faith – Why You Should Live Overseas for a Year

Micromanagement - puppeteer

5 Ways to Manage Without Micromanaging: Avoid Being a Nightmare Leader

Micromanagement is the Achilles heel of any high-performing team. From an organisational perspective, it typically leads to a decrease in productivity, lower employee engagement, and less innovation.

Continue Reading 5 Ways to Manage Without Micromanaging: Avoid Being a Nightmare Leader

Going to War against "how are you" - Simpsons

“How are you?” – The 3 most infuriating words in the English language?

We’re going to war. Our enemy? The 3 most useless and frustrating words in the English language: “How are you?”
Are you with me?

Continue Reading “How are you?” – The 3 most infuriating words in the English language?

From the archives

Coffee guy carrying coffee

Be the Coffee Guy

Experience has taught me that there are two types of people in the world:

– Those who fetch/make coffee for others; and
– Those who don’t.

Read this post Be the Coffee Guy

Vince Lombardi Quote - Confidence is contagious

Fake it ’til you make it

Being an auditor making his way through the ranks of the business world has its perks, albeit that they’re often more sparse than nuns in a brothel…

Read this post Fake it ’til you make it

Bill Gates quote - failed exams

So you failed your big exam. Now what?

My social media feeds blew up on the 14th of February. To my supreme shock, the content was 0% secret admirers…

Read this post So you failed your big exam. Now what?

Leadership quote featured image - penguins on iceberg.

Leadership quote of the day – 1 March

Be the leader you would follow.”” – Various Today’s leadership quote is one that’s stuck with me for years, and one…

Read this post Leadership quote of the day – 1 March

Daily motivation

Quote on regular motivation

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing — that’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar…

Read this post Quote on regular motivation

Short-term secondment opportunities - 5 reasons why you should go.

Short-term secondment: 5 reasons why you should go

A crazy number of people pass up the opportunity each year to go on secondments to other countries, especially those of…

Read this post Short-term secondment: 5 reasons why you should go

Coronavirus remote worker, work from home

How COVID-19 is answering Millenials’ prayers

Coronavirus has had serious consequences across the globe, with the stock markets collapsing along with everyone’s common sense. Yes, it’s a…

Read this post How COVID-19 is answering Millenials’ prayers

Stand out from the crowd, indispensable

Are you indispensable?

If there was ever a time to ask yourself this question, it’s now. I write this post as the status quo…

Read this post Are you indispensable?

Dealing with failure quote

Quote: Dealing with failure

Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts.- Winston Churchill This well-known Churchill…

Read this post Quote: Dealing with failure

Explore older posts

Primary Sidebar

Want new posts sent to you?

Be a part of our community!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

More to See

A close up of an AI humanoid robot

An AI has this advice to young professionals for 2023

November 24, 2022 By Mark Atkinson

Prioritise yourself - young professional services

When’s the last time you prioritised yourself?

May 3, 2022 By Mark Atkinson

Dear Manager - communicating with managers image

“Why doesn’t my manager listen to me?” – Communicating better with your managers

October 17, 2021 By Yi Su

Hot topics

AI Anxiety articles audit Career change career guidance coaching conflict confrontation corporate culture differentiating failure feedback finance flexible working initiative interview introverts job security leadership mental health motivation networking performance productivity quote resilience retrenchment secondment soft skills travel wellbeing women work from home

Our most loved posts

Insecurity and anxiety. The dark side of professional services.

Anxiety and insecurity: The dark side of professional firms (A true story)

By Mark Atkinson 9 Comments

Climbing out of the trenches - from the bottom up - audit articles

5 Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier About Serving Articles

By Christine Marais 6 Comments

Woman on swing overlooks Paris skyline

Lady up, Gents

By Pieter Senekal 6 Comments

Walk and talk - young professional lifestyle

Tomorrow Is Too Late – 3 Critical Lifestyle Reminders for Young Professionals

By Christine Marais 6 Comments

Coffee guy carrying coffee

Be the Coffee Guy

By Mark Atkinson 4 Comments

Footer

Welcome to Trench Life!

The Trench Life blog has been created for young professionals like you to help navigate the early stages of your career and keep you sane throughout!

We’ve got serious, we’ve got funny and we’ve got motivational. Take your pick and remember we’d love to hear your very own story from the trenches!

Learn more about Trench Life.

 

Recent

  • Avoiding Tears and Tantrums: Giving Negative Feedback Like a Pro
  • An AI has this advice to young professionals for 2023
  • When’s the last time you prioritised yourself?
  • “Why doesn’t my manager listen to me?” – Communicating better with your managers
  • 3 Popular Career Myths – Fact or Fairytale?

Search

Tags

AI Anxiety articles audit Career change career guidance coaching conflict confrontation corporate culture differentiating failure feedback finance flexible working initiative interview introverts job security leadership mental health motivation networking performance productivity quote resilience retrenchment secondment soft skills travel wellbeing women work from home

Copyright Trench.life © 2023 · · Log in
View our Privacy Policy