Criticism is useless if you don't respect the rules

The purpose of expressing criticism is to get someone to improve their performance and get closer to fulfilling your mutual goals. At the same time, negative feedback should strengthen, not destroy, mutual trust and respect.

This applies in management as well as in sport or in life in general.

If you take expressing criticism seriously, and want to use it to motivate others to make some changes that will benefit everybody, stick to the following principles.