Wake up short passing and close control before a session, and keep all three players involved by rotating which pair is working. The poles force passes into gaps rather than straight lines.
Set six poles in a small grid roughly seven by ten metres with markers at the corners. Three players work inside. Two exchange short passes around the poles for about five repetitions, then the ball goes to the third player and a new pair forms. Keep every pass under four metres and pass through the gaps between poles rather than round the outside. Two touch, and swap the resting player each time so nobody sits out twice in a row.
Warm-ups with three players usually end up as a triangle, with the ball going round and round in one direction. It works, and after about four minutes every player can do it while thinking about something else entirely.
Rotating pairs solves that cheaply. Two players work together for a handful of exchanges and then the pairing changes, which means the angles, the distances and the partner all shift every twenty seconds or so. Nothing about the setup changes, but the exercise never settles into a groove, and the third player is repositioning rather than waiting for his turn in a fixed rotation.
The poles are what make the passing worth anything. In an open triangle, a three metre pass is trivial. In a grid of six poles the passing lines are constrained, and players have to find the gap and put the ball through it firmly enough that it does not clip anything. That is a meaningfully harder version of the same action, and it is the version that resembles passing in a crowded midfield.
The reason to keep this short is that it is an activation exercise and not a technical block. Eight minutes at this intensity gets feet and eyes working before the session proper. Running it for twenty minutes turns it into a low-tempo passing drill that nobody is learning much from, which is a common way for a good warm-up to overstay.
Save it to your private drills, then change the animation, adjust positions, swap equipment, or drop it into a session block. Or start from a blank pitch and build your own.