Please help me !)
An employee subordinate to you is a talented creative specialist, aged, has status and personal achievements, is very popular with business partners, solves any problems and interacts perfectly. However, you have not developed a relationship with this employee. He does not perceive you as a leader; he behaves quite self-confident and ambitious.

There are some shortcomings in his work and decided to express criticism to him, however, your previous experience indicates his negative reaction to criticism: he becomes irritable and wary.

How to behave?