It is important to know your team and keep a track of where everyone is at with work and emotionally. It is also important to track how everyone prefers working, their strengths, struggles and prefered communication methods.

It is extremely important to be direct and detailed in team communication, even small things can be confused in diverse teams and social factors can cause people to not want to ask for clarification.

Positive feedback is almost always better than negative feedback, even if the feedback has to be negative i.e, someones work is subpar, you can phrase is in a way that feels postive or more uplifiting. For example:

instead of ‘your work really isn’t up to scratch at the moment. You need to step it up’.

you can focus on a highlight of the work. ‘This area of the work is really promising! Maybe you can try to improve on this in the other aspects of the project as well!’

Whilst both still have a negative vibe to them, one still feels better to hear, just because you recieve a small amount of praise with it.