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How to navigate team culture clash when new members change group dynamics

My department hired two new people from very different backgrounds and now our team dynamics are completely different and some people are uncomfortable with how direct one person is while others think we've been too indirect all along and I don't know how to facilitate this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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