While reluctance can be discouraging, it is also an opportunity for supervisors to deepen their skills, strengthen relationships, and create environments where learning can flourish.

Feedback is about building strengths, guiding growth, and cultivating relationships of trust.

It is not about performance and pointing out the problems with someone’s work or style. It is about supporting genuine professional growth and enhancing someone's work life. It is also about respect.

While it doesn’t happen instantaneously, we can all create great teams if we understand the key ingredients of a thriving team ecosystem. There are many more factors at play here, however, these three ingredients will pave the way.