Mindbody reviews

Strong empowering leadership is missing. Many people who are new to leadership and management have to go through ego development stages to find their solid secure leader self. Professional adults, who want to be treated as professional adults, don’t like going through a never ending maze of leadership ego stage development as under-supported inexperienced leader after under-supported inexperienced leader fails and is replaced by another in the same situation. Leadership is a lifelong endeavor. These folks are just at the beginning. Get them some support that helps them hold space for the greatness of that community to grow itself in. Help them turn into leaders that can lead a mission and change the world at every step of their careers. It’s available. MINDBODY hasn’t learned to hold the space for the community to lead itself. Top down leadership is experienced as force and causes fear and sickness while carefully guided community generating goals, accountability structures, and care would be experienced by community members as a community in action -changing the world together. It is hard to have the experience of being part of something bigger when the something bigger is vague and rarely acknowledged. Being a part of something bigger is something that is felt. It can’t be told to us… it is experienced. MINDBODY itself is not the something bigger to be a part of. The stunning world changing work that is getting done is the something bigger. Service itself is the something bigger. Eradicating illness with a structure for wellness is the something bigger. Decreasing healthcare costs by supporting wellness practices is the something bigger. Showing that a business can change the world is the something bigger - and it's crazy good to be a part of. It’s a felt thing though. Leaders acknowledge themselves regularly and don’t seem to express that they are completely dependent on the community’s willingness to perform. Force in the absence of willingness is very expensive. It requires layer upon layer of expensive “supervision”. It isn’t likely to fulfill on the greater mission. Cultivate willingness from the inside out. Reduce the number of layers and spend that money on building a community where minds and hearts are safe to find ways to complete the mission. “You can pay a person for their back and their hands but not their mind and their heart- those are volunteered”. What are the circumstances under which people will volunteer their minds and their hearts? Inexperienced biased insecure wrathful leaders hurt minds and hearts. Watching turnover of good people due to poor leadership hurts willing minds and hearts.

Have a concern about the company? Good luck finding someone who will listen. All but the customer service directors and VPs have closed offices and don't really mingle with the rest of the workforce. Want a promotion? The only people I've seen get promoted have either been out of convenience or because someone got pregnant. (And on that note, if you're consciously choosing not to have children or can't, be prepared to feel awkward all the time. There are lots of expectant mothers here, so there are constantly baby showers and people asking you when you're going to have a baby. I've been asked about when I'm going to get pregnant or that "I'm next" more times than is appropriate.) Pay isn't equivalent across departments. Some departments are offered major incentives for performance while others have to pay out of pocket for team building activities. It's really not fair or equitable.