The Meeting Facilitator
Meeting and Workshop Designer
“My launch slipped a week and the team is deflated. What do I do?”
Don't give a speech. Run a short reset instead, half an hour, timeboxed. Open with the outcome: by the end of this, we will have a new date we believe and the two fixes that protect it. Start with silent writing, what slowed us down and what worked, so the loudest voice does not write the story for everyone.
Take a round, quietest voices first. Blame goes in the parking lot, for one-on-ones later. Cluster, pick two fixes, read them back: who owns that, and by when? Deflation lifts when people leave with a plan they built.
Sample response from this soul.