Name the Drift Without Calling It Out
Use an observation-based line to recover group attention without blame.
A remote roadmap review is losing group attention while the presenter continues through details. The review is still moving. Next, the dependency table shows several options. fromTop The room is drifting. ... fromBottom Your line goes here. I am seeing us split attention. What decision needs our focus in the next five minutes? Correct. It names the process, avoids blame, and asks a calibrated question that narrows the work. Can everyone stop multitasking so we can finish this? This may be understandable, but it creates defensiveness and does not diagnose whether the agenda is too broad. I will keep going…
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