Adapting your kitchen leadership to deliver not only on the task, but for your team, and for your people too so that we are not just delivering great food, but also the next generation of kitchen leaders.
Every chef understands the task – creating great food, delivered on time. But managing individual relationships, and a team, to deliver ‘the task’ is very different.
Great kitchen leaders manage three responsibilities:
Keeping the standards and service sharp
Building a brigade that trusts and supports each other
Growing every person‘s skills and confidence along the way
The real skill is knowing when you flex across each one.
Using Ken Blanchard’s Situational Leadership, this workshop will explore how to deliver on all three, building a kitchen climate that lifts standards, overall performance and builds confidence.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
On completion of the workshop:
Understanding the Task–Team–Individual balance
Practising ‘Ruthless Prioritisation’ under pressure
Giving feedback that drives improvement rather than compliance
Delegating with clarity and accountability
Developing people at the pass with a coaching approach
Our Founder – Stephen Waters – passed away suddenly in 2025 after nearly 20 years of running Watershed. He delivered development courses to over 4000 bar & restaurant managers.
Watershed was underpinned by his staunch belief in the power of coaching, and that the best leaders know how to skilfully use it.