Leadership and Team Management is where you stop being the best pair of hands and become the reason the whole team is good. Set standards that hold, give feedback that lands, and build a section that runs to your level without you shouting to get there.
Self-paced access inside the Academy. Part of the Module 1 to Module 5 path.
Talent gets you the section. It does not get people to stay, to care, or to hold the line when you are not watching. Turnover, silent standards, the same corrections every service: that is not a people problem, it is a leadership gap no one ever trained you to close, and it is quietly capping your career.
Not a personality you are born with. Three things you set, hold, and build, every service.
Define the line clearly enough that anyone on your team can hold it, then defend it the same way every single service.
Give real feedback at the source, not a blow-up three weeks later. Hold the standard without becoming the tyrant nobody respects.
Build people up, delegate on purpose, and grow a team that can hold the pass without you. That is what a leader is for.
By the end of the module these three become your Leadership Operating Plan, written for your kitchen and ready to run from Monday.
Run the honest audit: where you lead, and where you still only cook. Read whether your authority runs on fear or respect, and name the first leadership shift to make.
Set a standard properly, written, shown, and trained into one person. Give one real piece of feedback at the source, and see how it lands when it is done right.
Cut the turnover you can avoid, map your single points of failure, and delegate a real task to someone you are actively developing.
Bring it together into a leadership operating plan: the standards you defend, how you hold them, and how you build the team that holds them with you.
You work the leadership call inside the Kitchen Lab: the standard that slips, the CDP who could go either way, the feedback that has been avoided too long. You make the call, cost what it protects, then take the same clarity back to your own team.
One standard that slips when you are off, costed weekly and annually. That is the money leadership protects.
Self-paced access inside the Academy, at the pace your roster allows.
Four weeks of lessons and worksheets, made for the pass, not the classroom.
The full leadership system: standards, accountability, and developing your people.
The Kitchen Lab team to practise the real calls on before you make them for keeps.
A capstone that leaves you with a Leadership Operating Plan for your own kitchen.
A live wrap-up session with Ricardo at the end of the module.
For the chef stepping into leadership, or already there and running it on instinct. Sous chefs and head chefs who want a team that holds the line without being bullied into it.
Self-paced, start when you are ready. The earlier modules build the base, and you can begin here if you are already leading a section.
They build the business base underneath your leadership, so they are the recommended path. If you are already leading a section, you can start here.
No. It is standards you can write down, feedback you can deliver on a busy Friday, and a plan you run in a real kitchen. Practical, not motivational.
It is a live wrap-up session with Ricardo for chefs finishing the module together. Bring your Leadership Operating Plan and the calls you are wrestling with.
A Leadership Operating Plan for your own kitchen, and the standing that comes from a team that holds the line because they want to, not because they are afraid of you.