Correct a teammate in private and they’ll fix it. Correct them in front of everyone and they’ll defend it.

People can hear almost anything when their reputation is not on the line. The same sentence that lands as help in a hallway lands as an attack in front of a group, because now they are not deciding whether you are right, they are deciding whether to look weak. Audience turns an argument into a performance.

If you have something to tell someone this week, find them alone first. Say it once, without the crowd and without a witness you brought for backup. You will be surprised how often the thing you braced for a fight about just gets fixed.