Some of the best ideas in the room belong to people waiting to be asked. Ask them.

Not everyone competes for the floor, and the quiet ones are not short of thoughts. Some are working out how to phrase it, some read the room as already decided, and some have simply learned that talking over people is not for them. Their idea does not arrive on its own. A direct question is the only thing that gets it into the room.

Ask someone by name in your next group, then let the silence be theirs. Do not fill it or rephrase, because that pause is where they decide whether you meant it.