Huntington Learning Centers reviews

In an era when customers have a myriad of progressive and cost-effective choices, Huntington pretends they have none, as evidenced by their lack of investment in center learning tools and curricula, and their overtly pushy sales tactics (you have to bring your husband with you to the "initial conference"...talk about insulting your clients, and being completely out of touch). Paranoid and very bitter work culture. Teachers are expected to work "for the love of teaching", which is an excuse for short-changing and under-valuing them. Many employees care about students, but the Huntington system fails to harness that energy. Averse to change, though top management will pat themselves on the back for introducing tools and processes that companies in the rest of the Western World incorporated 20 tears ago. Outdated systems ("hey, it's worked for 35+ years, why change?") are a fetish of management. Weekly corporate "trainings" are an absurd time suck whose chief value is to allow senior management to observe employees...which a well managed company wouldn't need to do. Incredibly high turnover and lack of honesty and clarity about the operation and the market are top problems at this company. Communications at this company are a mess, partially because management "yesses" the Huntingtons while the reality in the field is far different than they appear to know. Email communications from top management generally written in all caps with a lot of exclamation marks urging you to work harder and sell more...sigh. The good news is that when you leave, and you WILL leave, you will regain your self-respect, dignity and self-worth by no longer having to lie to yourself or to others. Proof? Just look at the change in the number of franchises and the overall business loan default rate of Huntington franchises.