Hospitality and Cross Sector Training

Hospitality, Customer-Facing Roles and Workplace Training Across Sectors

High quality training rooted in hospitality, designed for any customer-facing or workplace environment.

While we have a strong background in hospitality and catering, our courses naturally extend into other sectors where people, service, and everyday interactions shape the experience — including retail, leisure, offices, and wider service industries.

We cover a range of topics from customer service and communication skills to workplace essentials such as Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and Sexual Harassment awareness. The focus is always on practical application to develop how people respond, communicate and carry themselves in real situations.

Every organisation is different, so we shape our training around your needs. Whether you’re looking for a ready-to-go course or something more tailored, we work with you to create learning that builds confidence, consistency and strong day-to-day performance.

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£495

Course Duration – Half Day

This session is for organisations who want their managers, supervisors and team leaders to feel confident, natural and clear when dealing with sexual harassment in the workplace.

It helps people recognise situations early, respond appropriately, and support others with confidence in everyday interactions.

Course Outline

  • Understanding the Equality Act 2010 and Worker Protection Act 2023
  • What sexual harassment is and how it is defined in practice
  • Recognising different types of sexual harassment (physical, verbal, psychological and digital)
  • Challenging common myths, including “banter” and the difference between intent and impact
  • Understanding the impact of sexual harassment on individuals and teams
  • Taking reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace
  • Identifying risks and recognising where issues may arise
  • Creating a culture of respect and openness
  • Clear reporting channels and what good practice looks like
  • Handling disclosures with confidence and sensitivity
  • Active listening and effective questioning skills
  • What happens after a concern is raised
  • Manager and team responsibilities in preventing and responding
  • Real-life scenarios and practical discussion

£495

Course Duration – Half Day

This session is ideal for organisations who want their teams to feel confident, natural and respectful when interacting face to face with disabled people in real, everyday service situations. It builds on existing awareness and policies, turning them into confident, everyday interactions.

Course Outline

  • Understanding disability and human diversity
  • Brief recap of the Equality Act and types of discrimination
  • Exploring different ways of understanding disability
  • Recognising different types of disability
  • Moving away from assumptions and labels
  • Helpful approaches and approaches to avoid
  • Communication and confidence in real interactions
  • When to offer help and when not to
  • Creating inclusive experiences through small actions
  • Real life scenarios and discussion

The Dynamic Customer Service Workshop isn’t about starting from scratch, it’s about shaking things up in the best way. We take what’s already working and build on it, bringing new energy, fresh perspectives, and practical tools your team can use immediately.

We look at the customer journey through the lens of your business, where the touch points are, where the wins are, and how to keep customers coming back because of the service, not in spite of it.

Course Outline

  • The benefits of great Customer Services
  • The consequences of poor customer services
  • What customers want.
  • What value for money REALLY is.
  • Your customer’s journey within your workplace/business/service
  • The Four Core Customer Service Values
  • How to embed the values to your own customer journey at your workplace
  • Discovering types of selling
  • Identifying selling opportunities within your workplace.

£895 Day Rate 

This is a great Hospitality Training workshop for new and established supervisors to attend with lots of activity in the afternoon after the morning is spent laying the principles of being a supervisor

Course Outline

  • What a supervisor is 
  • What makes a great and not so great supervisor
  • Transition from frontline staff to supervisor
  • Mistakes new Supervisors make
  • How to be a great supervisor in 5 steps
  • 10 Supervisory Skills in detail
  • Setting SMART targets 
  • Risk Assessing
  • Conducting a 1-1 (if applicable)
  • Training your Team

£895 Day Rate

Course Outline

  • Health and Safety

– Hazards and Risks 

– COSHH

– Fire Awareness 

– Moving and handling Objects  (theory  

   and practical)

  • Infection Control

– What infection is

– Chain of Infection

– How infection spreads

– Infection prevention

– Handwashing

– 3 Steps to cleaning

– Clearing Spillages

£895 Day Rate 

If you have multiple sites or departments where the Managers self-manage recruiting, this is ideal and will help to recruit the right people within the law.

Course Outline 

  • Equality Act 2010 
  • The 9 Characteristics
  • Right to Work documentations . 
  • Advertising for the post without breaching the Equality Act.
  • Screening Application forms and CV’s
  • Data Protection
  • Questioning skills
  • Preparing for Interview
  • After the interview
  • Practicing what we know

Hospitality and Cross Sector training & Competencies

Please call to discuss your needs

Call us about any of your front of house Hospitality Training requirements from in-house classroom training through to developing on-going, on-job  competencies with measures of achievement inserted. 

Competencies are a great way  to embed technical and behavioural skills consistently across your workforce. Examples of competencies can include, Opening and Closing the bar; using the till; customer/guest greeting; checking in; Room service from call to delivery and so on.

The possibilities are endless!

Train The Trainer

£1790

Duration – 2/3 days

This Is ideal if you want employees to ‘Champion’ topics such as Health and Safety, Customer Service, Duty Management and more. All the learners will be carefully guided through the principles of training, discover learning styles and lesson planning. They will then be asked to deliver a micro teach which they will deliver with feedback from their peers and, of course, the trainer.

Course outline

  • Trainer role and responsibilities
  • Ways to promote equality, value diversity and inclusion in the training room
  • Expected trainer and learner behaviours
  • Methods of learning and delivery
  • Delivering Learning
  • Understanding Aims and Objective
  • Assessing and Assessment methods
  • Record Keeping
  • Feedback
  • Delivery of Micro Teach

N.B. The above is a brief outline of this robust course

All our training comes with workbooks, knowledge checks (if applicable) and an itemised certificate.

We strongly advise you scan or photocopy all of these and place in the learners training file as evidence of learning. This is particularly useful for inspections, audits, and performance reviews.

Please note, travel over a 60 mile round trip from Didcot (OX11) will be invoiced 45p per extra mile.

If you require any other Hospitality Training that is not listed, please give us a call or email and we can discuss your requirements.

REMOTE LEARNING

Emerald Training and People Development offers flexible Services

For Fees and Prices, please contact Emerald to discuss requirements.

Remote Training over Zoom or Teams

Open Remote Training

A cost effective way if you only have one or two learners. 2025 dates coming soon.. To book please get in touch.

Courses suitable    

Acquired Brain Injury; Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act 2010

Mental Capacity Act for Supervisors;

Reablement; Dementia; Epilepsy; Nutrition and Hydration; Health and Safety & Infection Control; Hospitality and Cross Sector Health and Safety and Infection Control*

*Moving and Handling Theory only

Remote Training over Zoom or Teams

Remote TRAINING (exclusively for you)

For those with multiple sites, lacking training facilities or people spread out far and wide, this is a very good option for many of our courses. 

Courses suitable for remote training     

Acquired Brain Injury; Safeguarding Adults and Mental Capacity Act 2010

Mental Capacity Act for Supervisors;

Reablement; Dementia; Epilepsy; Nutrition and Hydration; Health and Safety & Infection Control; Hospitality and Cross Sector Health and Safety and Infection Control*

*Moving and Handling Theory  only

emerald training flipbook

Table top Presentation Pack aka 'Flipbook'

Ideal for a small team,  low staff turnover or annual training.

A flipbook is an A4 presentation book that you prop up, show the pictures to the learner & on the back is your script. 

The great thing is that you don’t necessarily have to do the whole book in one go, you can do the training in stages & use at anytime at your convenience.

Alongside the flipbooks, we will email a workbook template for the learner to fill in as they learn.

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