A deadline that wasn't moving for anyone.
A manufacturing site. Eighty-five people.
Everyone in the room knew what the problem was. Nobody had said it out loud yet - not because they didn't trust each other, but because no one had created the space to. We did. The conversation that followed lasted forty minutes. The dynamic that shifted lasted a lot longer.
One person hadn't spoken in weeks. Not disengaged - just unheard. One different question, and they didn't stop talking for twenty minutes. Neither did anyone else.
It's almost never about the work itself.