When supervising colleagues, you often need to guide their behavior and help them to improve their skills. That means noticing the mistakes people are making and giving them good feedback that will influence their behavior in the future. You might find, though, that your team members don’t improve as much as you’d like after you speak to them. If so, there are a few key things you can do to maximize the effectiveness of your critical feedback. Ultimately, you need to learn to think more like a teacher. Catch your team members doing good things The errors that your supervisees make are often the most obvious thing you notice when looking at their performance. The things that go right don’t cause any problems, so they don’t leap to your attention. You have to start seeing the things your team members do well. They are working hard and improving their performance. You should give regular positive feedback to people. And you need to do it specifically.…