Our Core Programs
The Symes Group 'WE LEAD' Suite of Development Programs
Symes Group, celebrating 15 years in business, supporting, and partnering with organisation to design and deliver world class, high impact learning and development programs.
All our programs are grounded in the science of personality, evidence based coaching psychology, the principals of creativity and performance to realise potential.
Our Programs are delivered by Masters-level qualified executive, career, and leadership coach Jessica Symes Toomey
Program and Workshop Delivery style:
Jessica delivers all our programs via Interactive workshops using evidence based coaching psychology, autonomous adult learning principles, motivational theory, and behaviour change science. This ensures we engage, teach and promote self-reflection to create a call to action for the foundations of positive, purposeful change.
Jessica’s style is energetic, enthusiastic, engaging, passionate and entertaining. She is performative, creative, humorous, and fun in her delivery as well as compassionate, knowledgeable, and insightful.
LEAD
by Jessica Symes Toomey
The essential skills and capabilities for leaders embarking on the journey of people management, supervision, and leadership. Symes Group’s world class leadership programs are delivered internationally in the US, EU, AsiaPac and AUS markets. Our leadership development programs are based on current evidence-based leadership research and methodologies. LEAD is both theoretical and practical, although most importantly, accessible in delivery - ensuring each participant can apply the principals into their everyday roles with their people. The program delivers growth, development and results that can be measured and seen.LEAD was delivered to a global services organisation across AsiaPac with Middle Managers – Senior Leaders Cohorts
- Early to Mid-Career level
- 2 Day Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions and 2 x 1:1 executive coaching sessions.
PRESENT
by Jessica Symes Toomey
The practical and results driven approach to presenting authentically, with gravitas, confidence, and impact. Jessica has rolled out Symes Groups highly sort after program to hundreds of cohorts and thousands of individuals in organisations that have partnered with Symes Group to deliver the most effective and results driven presentation skills program on the market. Jessica’s methodology utilises the skills of an actor and director, the science of personality and coaching psychology to work with everyone to unlock their unique and authentic presentation and storytelling style. This program is fun, informative, and practical, with easy-to-follow principals around structure, intention and communicating and presenting with gravitas and authenticity. This program is a game changer for everyone to elevate the impact of their message.PRESENT has been delivered to hundreds of individuals over the past decade, most significantly Symes Group has partnered with one of the big 4 banks as part of their Group Technology learning and development offering, as well as their early career program.
- Early, mid-career and senior level
- 1 Day Face to Face or 2 x ½ day virtual sessions
COACH
by Jessica Symes Toomey
This program breaks down the key methodologies, models and evidence based coaching psychology theory into a practical and accessible program. This program breaks the theory down into everyday approaches and tips that people leaders and managers can apply in coaching moments, coaching conversations, and a coaching approach to leadership. Coaching is an imperative leadership capability that requires in depth knowledge of the theory, coupled with sufficient practice for participants to feel confident with implementing coaching as part of their leadership suite of tools. Jessica guides each leader through the principals of evidence-based coaching to equip them with the skills to support and lead their people with a coaching mindset.COACH has been delivered to cohorts of Senior Managers within an International Engineering Firm to directly uplift the capabilities of the leadership.
- Mid-Senior Career level
- 2 Day Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions
WELLBEING
by Jessica Symes Toomey
Work, life integration and workplace wellbeing are essential to a healthy organisational culture. Resilience, mental toughness, emotional regulation, stress management techniques and perspective taking are all skills that can be developed and applied. Jessica delivers as part of the program, the most impactful positive psychology techniques and models for individuals to create new behaviours to manage energy, motivation, and overall wellbeing. Wellbeing science and support for a thriving and flourishing employee population is essential for healthy, high performing organisations and happy, engaged and motivated employees.WELLBEING was successfully rolled out in partnership with an Australian – NZ Accounting Firm’s graduate program. The skills of resilience, emotional regulation and stress management were key elements of the organisations graduate program and Symes Group’s program was the essential practical addition.
- Early, mid-career and senior level
- 1 Day Face to Face or 2 x ½ day virtual sessions
CAREER CONFIDENCE
by Jessica Symes Toomey
Jessica’s signature program that she has been successfully training people in for 15 years to unlock purpose, strengths, and career plan to energise, uplift and empower. This program has been a successful addition to organisations graduate programs as well as a part of early career and transitioning, mid-career cohorts ready to take the next step to elevate and move up in their career. This program has been delivered to hundreds of cohorts within financial services, law and accounting firms and tech and engineering organisations. Career Confidence is supportive, informative and puts the individual in the driver’s seat of their own career.CAREER CONFIDENCE was delivered in partnership with one of Australia’s Big 4 Banks as part of the Graduate Program Learning and Development with great success.
- Early to mid-career level
- Cohorts can be mixed gender or female specific.
- 2 Days Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions and 2 1:1 executive coaching sessions.
TEAM
by Jessica Symes Toomey
This program utilises Facet5 Teamscape to deliver a highly successful team building and performance enhancing teaming session. It is grounded in science, and utilises data to produce valuable and accurate results, fast. The focus is on enhancing the skills and knowledge for teams to communicate, collaborate and creatively problem solve and make decisions collectively to innovate and create. Facet5 Teamscape has been an essential learning and development experience for both new and established teams to perform better together and take collaboration and understanding of self and others to the next level. This workshop uses the most credible, valid, and accessible data that can be understood and implemented immediately as a fast track to building rapport and trust, creating dynamic and high performing teams that lead creative and innovative companies.TEAMSCAPE is one of Symes Group’s most sought after programs within all industries from Telecommunications, Health, Financial Services, Engineering, Accounting, Law, FMCG, Consulting, Farming and many more.
- All Career Levels
- 2 Day Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions, 1 Day Face to Face or 2 x ½ day virtual sessions, 1 ½ Day Face to Face or Virtual
SHE LEADS
by Jessica Symes Toomey
As organisations move towards gender equality and equity, the value of quality, evidence-based Women’s Leadership Programs are evident, providing measurable, results driven outcomes for individuals’ careers, leadership capabilities, diversity and inclusion and gender equality – as well as enhanced business results. Symes Group has been designing and delivering Women’s Leadership Programs for over 15 years and ‘SHE LEADS’ remains one of our signature offerings of expertise. We pride ourselves on being experts in this field and a trusted advisor in this space.SHE LEADS has been delivered by Symes Group in partnership with one of the big 4 financial institutions as part of their Women’s Career Accelerate Program with significant results that demonstrated impactful capability uplifts and career movement within the bank.
- Mid to senior level
- 2 Days Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions and 2 x 1:1 executive coaching sessions.
CREATIVE LEADERSHIP
by Jessica Symes Toomey
The Thrill of Creative and Inspirational Leadership. The thriving leaders of today are both creative and inspirational, revelling in the thrill of leadership, a journey of self-discovery and growth, that has both commercial success and people results at its heart. This is the space in which Symes Group excels, in combining science, psychology, and creativity into a state-of-the-art leadership program to challenge your leaders in a way that no other program can. Creative Leadership is Symes Group’s Senior Leadership Program, which is well known for drawing upon some of the most recognised theatrical and film influences as well as creative thinking principals and storytelling to elevate senior leaders to a purpose driven leadership style to build purpose driven organisations.CREATIVE LEADERSHIP has been a highly successful program within one of the big 4 consulting firms working with the top twenty-one partners with great success.
- Senior Level
- 2 Days Face to Face or 4 x ½ day virtual sessions and 2 x 1:1 executive coaching sessions.
BUSINESS CREATIVITY
by Jessica Symes Toomey
The Art and Science of Business Creativity. Never have creativity and collaboration skills been more important for innovation and commercial success. One of Symes Group’s great strengths is teaching creativity and creative thinking, thereby supporting organisations to understand how to develop and embed creativity into their everyday practices and processes.Creativity has a formula, is measurable, is teachable and can be learnt. It is like a muscle that can be exercised. Symes Group are leaders in the field of business creativity and our passion is to teach, imbed and foster creativity into cultures so they can thrive, play, have fun, explore, and discover. This program is a must for all who want to embrace thinking laterally and creatively, and to create teams that work together in highly effective ways to embrace and lead innovative change.BUSINESS CREATIVITY has been rolled out within a Global FMCG Brand within their graduate program with great success.
- All Career Levels
- 1 Day Face to Face or 2 x ½ day virtual sessions
COMMUNICATION
by Jessica Symes Toomey
Communication, Collaboration, and Conversation Skills. The way in which teams and organisations communicate with each other in a verbal and non-verbal way is an essential skill set to develop and foster. The art and skill of meaningful, productive, and confident conversations are imperative. Direct, specific, and timely communication defines the success and productivity of a team. In this program Jessica breaks down the elements of effective communication and provide practical examples and practice opportunities. This is a skills-based program with the outcome being new skills embedded into the very day communication of the group.COMMUNICATION has been delivered for a large firm Law Firm within Australia for their graduate program with great success.
- All Career Levels
- 1 Day Face to Face or 2 x ½ day virtual sessions
Symes Group can also design and deliver a bespoke program or series of workshops, tailored specially for your organisations needs and people development objectives. Contact Jessica directly on to discuss your requirements or visit www.symesgroup.com for further information.
