If you’re not getting nearly immediate, blisteringly candid feedback from your team, it’s not because they don’t have any.
I’m thankful our team points out my blind spots quickly. I’ll even see Slack light up *while I am talking* with live feedback and I can improve on the spot.

When folks join our team, I tell them: I promise I will do something at some point that is wrong, steps on your feet, or otherwise irks you or isn’t logical from your perspective— I need you to point it out and help me understand your context. This will happen, you must tell me.

I need us to be thick as thieves because what we’re going to try to build together is going to hard to pull off and we’re gonna try to do it abnormally quickly — it’s natural this will lead to some trouble, some variance from each of our expectations. We must be on the lookout.

Then after a few reps, it just feels organic and comforting to know you can run fast together, because when one falls off the path, the other will catch us. Once we embrace we are flawed collaborators together, it means we can make *more mistakes* to learn and iterate faster.

If you feel you are tense or worry on repercussions of being wrong in front of another person, more times than not, the other person feels the same. Make the first move and state how you feel, and what relationship you want at work— the other person will likely feel relief too.