For the past few years, our provost has stressed the importance of embracing change in order to better meet the needs of our clients (community college students). Unfortunately, there hasn't been an impetus to make any changes, so we just keep plugging along, business as usual.

Approximately 7 months ago, our team hired a new director. This director has shaken up the status quo; bringing in new processes, opening up channels of communication with other departments and campuses, improving the quality of the classes we offer, etc. I'm excited about the changes because we're finally doing things right, and I support what the new director is doing.

Unfortunately, not everyone shares my enthusiasm. My teammate is very loyal to the former director. During our weekly team meetings, she is unresponsive, surly, and sometimes even belittling to me, etc.

Approximately 1 month ago, we hired another new employee. This new employee questions everything and has decided our new director is incompetent and doesn't know what he is doing. A few of her comments do have merit, many do not.

Her comments are making me doubt my support for the new director. Have I thrown my support behind the wrong person? Am I blind to the flaws of the new director?

Any advice you can give me is greatly appreciated. My support of the new director has not been without peril, I've been placed is some uncomfortable situations at times.

Other Facts
1. We use templates to create courseware. (The new director helped redesign and improve our old templates.) The new employee does not like our templates. She asked me to review the work she had done so far. On some template pages, she had written "snarky" comments regarding our templates.
2. The new employee must be right at ALL times and likes to argue.
3. I'm not sure the new director knows how to handle the new employee.