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How teams accidentally isolate new members while trying to be inclusive

Our team hired someone from a completely different cultural background and we're all trying so hard to be inclusive that we're walking on eggshells and not giving them the direct feedback they need to succeed. Meanwhile they're probably picking up on the weird energy and we're all pretending everything is fine.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your desire to be welcoming is creating a kind of protective distance that prevents real integration, and everyone's discomfort with addressing this directly is making it worse.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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