{"id":2566,"date":"2026-09-07T03:41:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/?page_id=2566"},"modified":"2026-09-07T17:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T15:22:49","slug":"executive-development-programs-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/de\/executive-development-programs-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive Development Programme f\u00fcr Hotellerie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\/* Hero: white text over the photograph. Prefix-agnostic, so a new landing page inherits it\n   without anyone remembering to add its prefix here.\n   Two traps this has already hit:\n   1. body.page-template does NOT match, because WordPress emits page-template-DEFAULT.\n      The body prefix is therefore dropped entirely.\n   2. 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img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<h1 class=\"kt-adv-headingedph_h1 has-text-align-center kt-adv-heading-edph_h1 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-headingedph_h1\">Executive Development Programs for Hospitality<\/h1>\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-headingedph_hero_sub\"]{max-width:640px;margin-right:auto;margin-left:auto;text-align:center;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-headingedph_hero_sub\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-headingedph_hero_sub\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-headingedph_hero_sub has-text-align-center kt-adv-heading-edph_hero_sub wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-headingedph_hero_sub\">Executive development programs are a schedule, a standard and a set of reviews. 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The question worth asking first is what the destination is, because a diary of sessions and a program with a written destination look very similar on a proposal.<\/p>\n\n<p>Cornerstone Hospitality runs development programs for hotel groups, resorts, restaurant companies and travel operators. The consultants delivering them held senior operating roles first, which is why the program is built around what actually changes a leader rather than around what fills a curriculum.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-split cs2566-tall\">\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <figure class=\"cs2566-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cs-2566-bridge-v2.jpg\" alt=\"The gap an executive development program has to cross, between the seat a leader holds and the seat they are for\" \/><\/figure>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <h2>The gap executive development programs have to cross<\/h2>\n    <p>Every development program exists because of a distance between two things: the seat someone holds now and the seat the business needs them sitting in one or two years from now.<\/p>\n    <p>That distance is rarely made of knowledge. A general manager moving toward a regional role already has the information about regional roles. What travels less well is a set of instincts that worked in one building and has to work across six, and the difference tends to show up in the numbers before anyone names it.<\/p>\n    <p>That is why the distance is closed gradually rather than in one step. It takes an honest starting picture, repetition, and enough time for the repetition to count. Take away any one of the three and the change does not hold. A two day course can supply the first of the three, which is why it is a useful start rather than a finished program.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-stats\">\n  <div><span class=\"n\">12<\/span><span class=\"l\">Months, typical program<\/span><\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"n\">24 to 48<\/span><span class=\"l\">Sessions across it<\/span><\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"n\">3<\/span><span class=\"l\">Sponsor reviews<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-split cs2566-rev\">\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <h2>One leader, a pair, or a whole layer<\/h2>\n    <p>The same program runs at three scales, and the choice usually follows the problem rather than the budget.<\/p>\n    <p>One leader, when a specific person is moving toward a specific seat. A pair, when the difficulty is the relationship between two roles rather than either person. A whole layer, when the executive committee is operating five different ways and the standard needs to be one.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <figure class=\"cs2566-fig cs2566-photo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cs-2566-team-meeting-glass-room.jpg\" alt=\"Five colleagues talking around a meeting table in a glass walled room above a city\" \/><figcaption>The scale follows the problem, not the budget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-cta-mid\">\n  <h3>Weighing up executive development programs?<\/h3>\n  <p>Tell us who it is for and what the business needs to be different in a year.<\/p>\n  <p><a href=\"\/contact\/\">Talk to our hospitality practice<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"cs2566-h2c\">What is inside our executive development programs<\/h2>\n<p class=\"cs2566-sub\">Every engagement has these components. The proportions move with the person.<\/p>\n\n<table class=\"cs2566-table\">\n  <thead><tr><th>Component<\/th><th>What it is<\/th><th>Who sees it<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>\n  <tbody>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Scoping<\/td><td>Agreeing the destination with the leader and the sponsor together<\/td><td>Both<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Baseline<\/td><td>A structured read from the people above, beside and below them<\/td><td>Both<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Written plan<\/td><td>Named behavioral targets, not general aspirations<\/td><td>Both<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Sessions<\/td><td>Two to four a month, with access between them<\/td><td>The leader only<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Milestone reviews<\/td><td>Three across the engagement, written against the plan<\/td><td>Both<\/td><\/tr>\n    <tr><td class=\"k\">Handover<\/td><td>What carries on after the engagement ends, and who owns it<\/td><td>Both<\/td><\/tr>\n  <\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"cs2566-note\">What is said inside a session stays inside it. That boundary is what makes the sessions worth having.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-split cs2566-tall cs2566-rev2\">\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <h2>Where twelve months of executive development programs actually go<\/h2>\n    <p>Programs are usually described by their beginning, because the beginning is the part that is easy to specify. It is also the smallest part.<\/p>\n    <p>The first two months are scoping and baseline. Real work, and genuinely uncomfortable for the leader, but preparation rather than change. Nothing has moved yet.<\/p>\n    <p>Months three to nine are the program. This is where a leader walks into a session having handled something badly the previous week, and the pattern behind it gets named for the third time. It is repetitive, it is slow, and it is the only part that alters how they operate.<\/p>\n    <p>Months ten and eleven test whether it holds under pressure without a session scheduled around it. Month twelve is handover, agreeing what continues and who owns it once we are no longer in the diary.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"cs2566-col\">\n    <figure class=\"cs2566-fig\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cs-2566-twelve-months-v2.jpg\" alt=\"Where the twelve months of an executive development program actually go\" \/><\/figure>\n  <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2 class=\"cs2566-h2c\">How executive development programs start<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cs2566-steps\">\n  <div><span class=\"num\">1<\/span><h3>A conversation<\/h3><p>With the sponsor first, to establish what the business needs different, then with the leader to test whether they accept it.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"num\">2<\/span><h3>Scope and baseline<\/h3><p>A structured read from the people around them, returned as a written plan with named targets.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><span class=\"num\">3<\/span><h3>The work<\/h3><p>Sessions at an agreed cadence, three milestone reviews, and a handover that says what continues.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<figure class=\"cs2566-fig cs2566-wide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/cs-2566-video-call-working-session.jpg\" alt=\"A woman leading a working session from her desk with the participants on screen in front of her\" \/><figcaption>A plan with named targets, reviewed three times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<h2 class=\"cs2566-h2c\">Frequently asked questions about executive development programs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cs2566-faq\">\n  <div><h3>How long does an executive development program run?<\/h3><p>Six to twelve months in most cases. Shorter than six rarely produces a change that holds through a difficult quarter, because a habit needs to be caught repeatedly rather than understood once.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><h3>How many sessions are there?<\/h3><p>Two to four a month, with access between them for the situations that will not wait. Across a twelve month engagement that is typically twenty four to forty eight sessions.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><h3>Is it one to one or a group?<\/h3><p>Both are available. One to one when a named person is moving toward a named seat, group work when a whole layer needs to operate to the same standard. Many engagements run individual work underneath a shared group standard.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><h3>What does the sponsor get to see?<\/h3><p>The written plan, the named behavioral targets and three milestone reviews. The content of individual sessions is not reported, and that boundary is what makes the sessions useful rather than performative.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><h3>What happens when the program ends?<\/h3><p>A handover in the final month, agreeing what continues, who owns it internally and what would signal that a follow up engagement is warranted. Some leaders return two years later for the next step rather than the same one.<\/p><\/div>\n  <div><h3>Can the program run alongside a search?<\/h3><p>Yes, and they inform each other. Many of the leaders we develop were placed by us, and what a development engagement reveals about a layer makes the next appointment into it considerably sharper.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"cs2566-final\">\n  <h2>Considering a development program for someone senior?<\/h2>\n  <p>Whether it is one leader, a pair or a whole executive layer, start with a confidential conversation about what the business needs to be different. No commitment, no charge.<\/p>\n  <a href=\"\/contact\/\">Start a confidential conversation<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For the broader picture this fits into, see <a href=\"https:\/\/cornerstone-hospitality.global\/leadership-development\/\" style=\"color:#194783; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:underline;\">our Leadership Development work<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size:13px;color:#666;border-top:1px solid #ddd;padding-top:24px;margin-top:48px\">\n  <h3 style=\"font-size:17px;color:#0a1a33;margin:0 0 12px\">Sources and references<\/h3>\n  <ol style=\"margin:0 0 0 18px;padding:0;line-height:1.8\">\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trainingmag.com\/2025-training-industry-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#333;text-decoration:none\">Training magazine, 2025 Training Industry Report<\/a>: records that &ldquo;U.S. training expenditures jumped 4.9 percent to $102.8 billion in 2025&rdquo; and that &ldquo;organizations spent $874 per learner this year compared with $774 per learner in 2024&rdquo;, while average training received fell to &ldquo;40 hours of training per year vs. 47 hours last year&rdquo;. Management and supervisory training took 13 percent of the average budget. The survey covers a weighted universe of 152,572 US companies with 100 or more employees.<\/li>\n    <li style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccl.org\/articles\/leading-effectively-articles\/70-20-10-rule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" style=\"color:#333;text-decoration:none\">Center for Creative Leadership, The 70-20-10 Rule for Leadership Development<\/a>: sets out the framework that &ldquo;emerged from over 30 years of our Lessons of Experience research&rdquo;, in which development divides into &ldquo;70% challenging experiences and assignments, 20% developmental relationships, 10% coursework and training&rdquo;. CCL notes the framework is drawn from research spanning China, India, Singapore and the United States and is used across a client base including two thirds of the Fortune 1000.<\/li>\n  <\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Executive Development Programs for Hospitality Executive Development-Programme sind ein Zeitplan, ein Standard und eine Reihe von Bewertungen. Hier ist, was unser Programm tats\u00e4chlich enth\u00e4lt und was zw\u00f6lf Monate davon bringen. Ein Executive Development-Programm ist ein Kauf, und es ist wichtig, genau zu wissen, was gekauft wird. 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