Only sponsored students for a reason.... - Campus Leader Summit Learning Centres Employee Review

For anyone reading this I would say to work for the company and form your own opinions. Please keep in mind the older reviews on this site no longer apply. There is new management now. Here is a response to each of the reviewer's point: "Terrible pay for what is expected of you" This depends on the individual’s skills, perspective, and expectations. The pay is comparable to other educational institutions. "Management has no clue how to manage people, outdated resources, high turnover at every campus and in the support office" This was due to former management. The employees are valued and respected. Outdated resources are updated constantly, and the turnover is a lot less compared to other workplaces (with the exception of occasional teachers and tutors – mostly due to not enough hours). "Management lures teachers in with bonus program incentives that turn out to impossible to achieve." Almost half of the Campus Leaders achieved a bonus in 2014 and 2015 so the statement, "impossible to achieve" is not true. For those that did not achieve a bonus, they were one or two students away from receiving a bonus. "The mandatory professional development program involves watching Netflix documentaries on juicing and eating vegan and writing book reports." For an employee to have something against a company that encourages its employees to read or watch healthy living/nutritional and inspirational videos & books is beyond me. The list of recommended books and dvds were suggestions & recommendations from former team members, not management - employees who are not happy with the list are encouraged to propose their own development book/dvd/goals, etc. "Owner expects employees to operate campus like it we're their own franchise, and does not compensate for things you do on your own time and resources ( marketing events, mileage for travelling and networking)" Yes, Campus Leaders (CLs) are expected to run the school as if it's their own franchise/school. Unfortunately, due to poor (former) management, proper expectations were not set in the beginning. Therefore, a few CLs missed the big picture; i.e. surely we could give employees mileage, and in exchange not give the bonus to the Campus Leader when they succeed from their efforts. Unfortunately, it does take time for a Campus Leader to diversify/increase their enrolment, based on history it takes a CL 2 years to build rapport/key relationships to see results from networking. Unfortunately, former CL’s have other long term goals and look for quick results. "There's a reason you are only cornering the sponsored student market. People would never pay out of their own pocket for old, outdated programs, and for their instructor to give them the text books and say have it, let me know if you need help" Our teaching strategy is Andragogy (not pedagogy). In essence, we don’t necessarily want the adult students to be dependent on the instructor for most of the learning, instead they are trained to be self-directed and self-motivated in pursuit of understanding and developing skills (we need them to learn how to learn). Self-directed does not mean “online style learning” or “on their own”, we don’t just give out information and mark it. We teach, support, engage, direct, suggest, review and provide ongoing feedback to the students holistically. We never inform instructors to just give the text books and say, "have it, let me know if you need help." Clearly, this is the employee's own developed teaching style and opinion. A lot has changed since this employee worked at Summit. Some programs are more student lead for the reasons above and some diploma programs are instructor lead so the student gets the benefit of attending a community college (i.e. instructor lead) and a private college (i.e. smaller class size).