#Lindamood bell learning processes how to

However, that's about where the positives end. Watching kids grow as students was really encouraging every day. The process works, and that is super exciting to see. Listen to your staff! Your staff are the ones selling your product day in and day out and if they aren’t happy, how can you expect your students and families to be? Hundreds of reviews say the same things, yet corporate makes no change, and even deactivated the employee suggestion form.

The work done at Lindamood-Bell is amazing but there is a common trend of unhappy staff. Sales incentive bonuses are nearly impossible to achieve, and staff rarely get recognized with anything else aside from a pat on the head and a “good job, you are valued.” There isn’t much action to back up the words, and center managers aren’t able to independently make decisions regarding things like raises and bonuses for their staff, so many are left wanting more. While sales pressure should be expected, culture has been lacking company-wide since the pandemic. That being said, if you have an unhappy director, the entire center suffers. Almost everybody in a management role began at Lindamood-Bell as an instructor, so many of them don’t have experience with sales and think expectations are unrealistic when they are not. Learning Center managers have a lot of pressure placed on them to sell instruction and bring in revenue (which, is common for any business that sells something). However, there is definitely a trickle down effect of negativity. You get to show up at work every day knowing you are changing the lives of students and their families and seeing the self esteem and confidence grow in your students is so inspiring! Working at Lindamood-Bell is a mostly positive experience. However, once you become trained in every program along with testing, they suddenly flip the script and need you to take on everyone's responsibility, once again, with no benefits, and only more stress on your plate. The job can be extremely emotionally draining, but the company doesn't seem to care, as they can always find someone else to fill your position.

#Lindamood bell learning processes how to

Student behavior is handled extremely poorly and we get no training in how to deal with it effectively, so often clinicians are forced into uncomfortable and stressful situations with unruly students multiple times throughout the week, and since the company doesn't want to lose students, there's not much done to support the employees. There is a revolving door of new employees, and so anyone who lasts longer than 6 months is pressured to take on more responsibility, with minimal incentive to do so. You don't stand to gain much by bending over backwards for this company outside of hearing a few kind words every so often, bonuses don't really exist here. There is a lot of clear favoritism for certain employees based on who is friends with management at the time, and those people tend to get a lot more lenience with mistakes and accomodations (aka hours, time off, etc). When I first started, after the summer period ended, the hours were extremely inconsistent. Poor management can make or break your experience here.

I've been working here for 4 years now, and I've perhaps only truly enjoyed one of those years. Working at Lindamood Bell is probably the most unique position I've ever held, and that's not necessarily a good thing.