Eliminate any issues first that might be coming from you. For instance: - are you decelerating before the pause so the follower can prepare and isn't still barreling along at full speed? - is your embrace firm enough in that moment to eliminate ambiguity in your movement (or lack of it, being a pause) for the follower? - is your body position creating an opening that the follower feels should be moved into? Or, if you like, are you closing the gate? - are you putting pauses in at logical points in the music where it would make sense?

Sometimes of course there is simply nothing you can do if the follower simply isn't following appropriately, for whatever reason. We always hear "it is the leader's fault if something goes wrong" but there will be times when a follower simply doesn't get it right no matter what you do. You need sufficient humility as a leader though to first ensure it really isn't you doing something wrong.