Leadership and Management Skills Training for Hospitality Teams

Practical, industry-focused management and leadership programs designed exclusively for the hospitality sector — from frontline supervisors to senior leadership teams.

Leadership Training
7 Foundation Modules - Core Leadership Skills
7 Advanced Modules - For Senior Leadership
100% Customizable - Tailored to Your Needs
Management & Leadership Training

Why Management & Leadership Training Matters

Great hospitality businesses are built on great leaders. Adevo's Management & Leadership Programs are designed to equip managers and senior professionals with the skills, tools, and mindset to lead high-performance teams, drive profitability, and navigate the complexities of today's hospitality landscape.

How Leadership Programs Work

How These Programs Work

Every program can be tailored to your team's level, your business goals, and your preferred format. We work with you to define the outcomes first — then design the experience around them.

  • Workshops — Focused, intensive sessions on a specific topic. Ideal when you need to address a targeted skill gap quickly.
  • Multi-Session Engagement — A structured journey over weeks or months, enabling deeper learning, reflection, and measurable behaviour change.
  • Coaching & Mentoring — Personalised one-on-one guidance with a seasoned facilitator over a defined period. Best suited for high-potential or newly promoted leaders navigating real challenges.
  • Fully Customised Program — Content, depth, and delivery designed around your organisation's specific context, culture, and outcomes.

Every program can be customised — run as a single workshop, or as an ongoing multiple-session engagement — depending on the outcomes required.

Programs by Level

Foundation Modules

Supervisory & Middle Management

For Team Leaders, Supervisors, and Department Managers

  • Communication — Active listening, body language, professional email writing, report preparation, and presentation skills.
  • Professional Etiquette — Understanding today's work dynamics, building a personal brand, and meeting organisational expectations.
  • Conflict Management — Identifying root causes of conflict, proven resolution techniques, and strategies for preventing recurrence.
  • Leadership Essentials — Delegation, time management, goal setting and tracking, critical thinking, and workplace ethics.
  • Teamwork & Collaboration — Understanding how business works, your role in the business cycle, and cross-functional empathy.
  • Emotional Intelligence — Managing emotions in yourself and influencing emotions in others; balancing work, family, and personal expectations.
  • Commercial Basics for Managers — Introduction to MIS, P&L, and balance sheets; costing, EBITDA, Unit P&L analysis, and labour compliance essentials.

Advanced Modules

Senior Leadership & General Management

For GMs, HODs, Business Owners, and C-Suite Leaders

  • Annual Business Planning — Goal-setting frameworks, budgeting cycles, KPI alignment, scenario planning, and building team buy-in.
  • Vision, Mission & Core Values — Defining, articulating, and embedding organisational identity into culture, hiring, and everyday decision-making.
  • Sales Leadership — Building a revenue-first culture, leading sales teams, pipeline thinking, and driving an owner's mindset across departments.
  • Strategic Thinking & Decision Making — Structured problem-solving, scenario planning, evaluating trade-offs, and managing uncertainty.
  • Leading Through Change — Change management frameworks, communication strategies for transformation, and sustaining team momentum.
  • People Strategy & Talent Development — Succession planning, performance management frameworks, coaching cultures, and building L&D from within.
  • Financial Acumen for Leaders — Advanced P&L management, capital expenditure planning, profitability levers, and reading overall business health.

Who Should Enroll in Our Leadership Programs?

Adevo's Management & Leadership enrollingms are designed for hospitality organisations. Whether you run a single outlet or a multi-location group, these programs are built to be deployed across your teams, creating a common language of leadership and a shared foundation for growth.

These programs are the right fit if your organisation is:

  • Scaling up — and needs managers who can lead growing teams with structure and confidence
  • Standardising operations — and wants consistent leadership behaviours across locations or departments
  • Aligning leadership — around a shared strategy, vision, or set of values
  • Investing in succession — by building a pipeline of capable, ready-to-promote talent
  • Addressing performance gaps — through targeted, relevant upskilling at the supervisory or senior level
Who Should Enroll

We work with a wide range of hospitality businesses, including restaurant groups and standalone F&B outlets, hotels and resorts, cloud kitchen operators and catering organisations, and hospitality management companies overseeing multiple brands or properties. Individual enrollment is not available at this stage.
If you are an individual looking to develop your leadership skills, stay tuned — we will be launching open-enrollment programs soon

Why Most Hospitality Teams Struggle Without Structured Leadership Training

Many hotels and restaurants fail to build strong leadership pipelines due to lack of structured management development and operational discipline.

  • No structured management training program in place
  • Inconsistent leadership quality across properties
  • High staff turnover driven by weak supervisory skills
  • Poor team communication and feedback culture
  • Lack of conflict resolution capabilities
  • Difficulty adapting to changing guest expectations
Kitchen Operations Management

Adevo's Leadership Training Approach

Our comprehensive 6-step training approach ensures lasting results and measurable improvements across all levels of your hospitality leadership team.

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Need Analysis

  • Leadership skills audit
  • Management competency review
  • Team dynamics assessment
  • Organizational objectives
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Standards

  • Leadership competency frameworks
  • Management SOPs
  • Performance benchmarks
  • Industry best practices
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Content Creation

  • Customized leadership modules
  • Role-based management content
  • Case studies & simulations
  • Training calendar & plan
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Train

  • Interactive leadership workshops
  • Management coaching sessions
  • Regular skill assessments
  • Evaluation & progress reports
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Measure

  • Performance management system
  • Leadership KPI tracking
  • Team engagement metrics
  • 360-degree feedback analysis
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Re-assess & Continuous Development

  • Ongoing leadership coaching
  • Advanced management modules
  • Periodic competency audits
  • Train the Trainer program

Leadership Certification & Assessment

Certification-Ready Training

Our programs include competency-based assessments and certification to prepare managers for career advancement, performance reviews, and organizational leadership roles.

  • Competency-based assessment & certification tracks

Online & On-Site certification tracks available — built to support consistent leadership standards across hotels, restaurants, and multi-outlet hospitality operations.

Why the Hospitality Industry Trusts Adevo

Join hundreds of successful hospitality businesses transforming their leadership teams.

Why Choose Adevo

The trusted partner for leadership excellence in hospitality

Built specifically for hospitality leadership
Practical, execution-focused management training
Scalable for multi-property hotel groups
Online and on-site learning flexibility
Trusted by growing hospitality businesses
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What You Gain

Measurable outcomes that transform your leadership

Consistent leadership quality across properties
Improved team retention & engagement
Stronger guest satisfaction scores
Faster manager onboarding
Better operational control & decision-making

Management & Leadership Course FAQs

Is this a full management and leadership training course?
Not in the traditional sense. Our programs are modular, focused, and contextual — built around your organisation's specific challenges, team levels, and goals, rather than a fixed curriculum. We design the right combination of engagements to get your leadership team where it needs to be.
Is this suitable for first-time managers?
Yes, beginner-friendly learning paths are included. We start with leadership fundamentals and progressively build to advanced management techniques, making it suitable for all experience levels.
Is certification included with the training?
Yes, competency-based assessment and certification are included. Our program prepares managers for industry-recognized leadership certifications and performance advancement.
Can hotel chains use this for multiple properties?
Yes, the courses are designed for scalable, multi-location deployment. Our training supports hotel groups, restaurant chains, and multi-outlet operations with standardized leadership development.
Can I choose specific modules?
Yes, our content is modular and you can create your own course structures based on your team's specific development needs.
Is the content customisable?
Yes, we undertake partial and full customized content development to meet your specific leadership standards, SOPs, and organizational culture.
Who will conduct these sessions?
Our facilitators are senior hospitality industry professionals with hands-on experience across Operations, P&L responsibility, Corporate Strategy, Finance, New Product Development, and Leadership — many with CXO-level backgrounds and exposure to both business and academia. You get practitioners who have lived the challenges your teams face, not trainers reading from a manual.

Build a Strong, High-Performance Leadership Team

Transform your hospitality managers into confident, capable leaders who drive operational excellence and team success.

Section I: Fundamental Modules

Section IV: Supervisory Skills

Section III: Menu Knowledge

Section II: The Service Cycle

Section I: Fundamental Modules

Brendon Pereira leads the areas of Business & Finance, Technology, and Strategic Consulting. With three decades of diverse experience, Brendon has worked in financial planning, corporate finance, and strategic management across various industries.
Prior to co-founding Adevo, he founded Brenridge Consulting, where he provided expertise in strategic planning, corporate finance, HR planning, and performance management. His prior roles include Consulting Chief Financial Officer at Kapston Facilities Management and Vice President – Corporate Planning & IT at Dusters Total Solution Services Private Limited, where he managed business planning, M&A, and IT & automation. Brendon also brings valuable operational experience from his time as Operations Manager at Reliance Industries Ltd (Petroleum Business) and earlier in hospitality as Unit Manager at TGI Fridays, and F&B Manager roles at Le Meridien, The Orchid Ecotel, and Hotel Marine Plaza.
Brendon’s educational background includes a Post Graduate Executive Management Program (MBA) from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, an MDP in Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, a BA in Political Science from the University of Mumbai, and a Hotel Management degree from the Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore. He has also completed Level 1 of the CFA Charter from the CFA Institute, USA.
Krishna Shantakumar, oversees content development, consulting, product development, and HR. With a career spanning three decades in the hospitality industry, Krishna’s journey began after graduating from the Institute of Hotel Management in Bangalore in 1995. An unyielding passion for food prompted him to boldly trade a traditional engineering path for his true calling, to forge a career in hospitality
Krishna’s extensive experience includes setting up a Hotel Management Institute in Chennai, a management trainee role with Ramanashree Group, pioneers in the budget business hotel segment, and successfully transforming Hotel Priyadarshini in Hospet. He then spent 21 years with the Aswati Group, where he played a pivotal role in expanding restaurants like EBONY, conceptualizing and designing multi-award-winning establishments such as The 13th Floor, ASEAN On The Edge, The Legend of Sikandar, Sindbad, Ebony Bistro, Dancing Wok, Katpadi Junction, and Panda House. Beyond this, Krishna has consulted on, executed, and operated four cafes and bake-houses, two hotels with multiple food and beverage outlets, two fine dining restaurants, and an exclusive cocktail bar.
His educational background includes a Diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Osmania University, Hyderabad.
Rashmi Koppar spearheads the organization’s marketing, pedagogy, and academic functions. With over 27 years of extensive experience in the hospitality industry and academia, Rashmi is a passionate hotelier and educator who has worked with leading names such as The Taj and Oberoi group of hotels. Her career also includes significant tenures at M. S. Ramaiah University of Applied Sciences, where she held roles as Deputy Registrar and Academic Registrar, contributing to infrastructure development, policy implementation, curriculum design, and faculty training.
Driven by her belief that hospitality education should be universally accessible, transcending geographical, economic, and time barriers, Rashmi co-founded Adevo, dedicating it to transforming learners into skilled hospitality professionals. Her educational foundation includes a Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resources Management from the All India Institute for Management Studies, a Housekeeping Management Training Program from the Oberoi Centre for Learning and Development, and diploma in Hotel Management from the Institute of Hotel Management, Bangalore