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    Design your delta

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        • Design your delta

          We're creating a set of tools for legal professionals who want to chart a course for thriving in the 21st century, based on the Delta Model for Lawyer Competency and using human-centered design principles.

           

          Starting with a set of PLAYLISTS — resources organized by PEOPLE - PROCESS - PRACTICE, to help you read, listen, watch, and do — and build your Delta Model competencies.

           

          And next up? PLAYBOOKS for making the Delta Model actionable. Customized for law students, law schools, law firms, legal departments, and individual legal professionals.

           

          Tools will be customized to a range of legal professionals — from law students to mid-career lawyers to allied legal professionals — as well as for a myriad of purposes, from career planning to hiring to assessment.

           

          If you're interested in using Design Your Delta tools individually or for your organization, we would love to talk with you. Join the DYD List or contact us about DYD coaching and we'll be in touch!

           

          - Alyson Carrel and Cat Moon

        • Law Students + Schools

          The Delta Model helps law students gain self-awareness, intentionally plan their law school journey to develop relevant skills, and chart a course for a thriving life in the law.

           

          The Delta Model helps law schools career advisors support successful student employment opportunities in the modern legal marketplace.

          Law Firms

          The Delta Model helps law firms across the spectrum of employee engagement, assessment, and retention, by providing a framework and set of tools relevant to hiring, promotion, and professional development.

           

          Firms can create Delta model maps unique to the firm's structure, culture, and values.

          Legal Departments

          The Delta Model helps legal departments assess and develop their legal professionals (JDs and others) within a holistic framework that can be customized to fit the department's goals and mission within its parent organization.

           

          A department's unique Delta Models can also help communicate its value to the organization.

          Legal Professionals

          The Delta Model helps practicing legal professionals gain a deeper understanding of their individual competencies, skills, and strengths, and use this self-awareness to create an intentional plan for professional growth that leads to a thriving career in the law.

           

          An individual's unique Delta Playbook offers an adaptable and holistic planning tool.

        • design your delta :: Playbooks

          coming soon

          Delta Model playbooks lay out *plays* — ways to apply the Delta Model in practical ways to set and achieve professional formation goals. We're creating playbooks customized for

          law students / law schools / law firms / legal departments / individual legal professionals.

           

          Curious? Fill out the contact form and include playbook in your message.

        • learn more about The delta model

          an agile competency model for the 21st century legal profession(al)

          How Law Students, Law Schools, and Legal Employers Can Use the Delta Model

          via Zooming Through Law School

          In this podcast episode of Zooming Through Law School, Alyson and Cat talk with Chris Meyers, Assistant Dean of Students at Vanderbilt Law School, about the importance of the Delta Model as a holistic framework for identifying and building competencies, and why it's so relevant in these pandemic times.

          The Delta Model: A Framework for Reimagining the Legal Profession Pipeline

          via Law Insider

          This article by Alyson Carrel explains how the Delta Model has the potential to help our profession recognize that legal professionals must broaden their skill set beyond “thinking like a lawyer,” as well as reimagine how students apply for law school, get hired, take the bar, and progress in their careers — without suffering from the structural racism currently baked into the system.

          The Delta Model: simple, accurate, versatile

          via Legal Evolution

          The Delta Model working group contributed this post to Bill Henderson's Legal Evolution blog. The post offers an overview of the Model along with its applicability to various points along the legal profession spectrum, from law students to mid-career lawyers to legal employers.

          Alyson Carrel and Cat Moon on The Delta Model - The Geek in Review Ep. 59

          via 3 Geeks and a Law Blog / Geek in Review Podcast

          In this conversation with Geek in Review co-hosts Marlene Gabauer and Greg Lambert, Delta Model working group members Alyson Carrel and Cat Moon talk about the Model's holistic approach and how it can be leveraged in the law school experience and beyond.

          What is the Delta Model? explainer videos

          via Alyson Carrel

          Alyson Carrel, a founding member of the Delta Model working group and co-creator of Design Your Delta, has created a series of short videos explaining aspects of the Delta Model.

          Adapting for 21st Century Success: Delta Lawyer Competency Model (White Paper)

          via Legal Executive Institute

          Natalie Runyon and Alyson Carrel, members of the Delta Model working group, authored a white paper detailing research undertaken by Thomson Reuters to validate the Delta Model.

          Conversations with the Delta Model Working Group

          via Legal Executive Institute

          Natalie Runyon hosted conversations with the other working group members on the Thomson Reuters Law School Podcast.

          Intro to the Delta Model: how a manager can use the model for employee development

          via Legal Executive Institute

          This brief video shows how someone in a law department managerial role can use the Delta Model to help employees plan and execute meaningful skills development and growth.

        • CURIOUS? JOIN THE DYD LIST TO LEARN MORE.

          Delta Model working group members Alyson Carrel and Cat Moon are creating Design Your Delta to offer practical tools for using the model, across the spectrum of the legal profession.

           

          Join the DYD list and be the first in the know about Design Your Delta resources via our e-newsletter, DYD.

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        • Design your delta coaching

          We offer one-on-one assessment and coaching for legal professionals, based on your individual Delta Model profile.

           

          Create a playbook for a thriving legal career using research-based tools to create self-awareness using a holistic approach to professional formation built on the Delta Model framework.

          contact us to get started!
        • Design your Delta :: PLAYLISTS

          v.1

          *** BETA***

          what: playlists of recommended resources — books and articles to read, podcasts to listen to, videos to watch, courses and assessments to do

           

          why: to build your Delta Model competencies through a wide range of cross-disciplinary sources

           

          how (coming soon): how to create *your* custom Delta playlist, AKA a regular diet of useful information and learnings to support your lifelong professional formation

          PEOPLE playlist

          under construction

          PEOPLE competencies:

          business development, character (accountability, common sense, integrity, professionalism, resilience, work ethic), collaboration, communication (active listening, conflict resolution, interviewing, managing change, speaking/writing persuasively), creative problem-solving, emotional intelligence (empathy, self-awareness, self-regulation), entrepreneurial mindset (adaptability, proactive problem-solving, taking initiative, strategic planning, curiosity), human-centered design, leadership, relationship management (feedback, coaching)

           

          READ

          • Emotional Agility (book)
          • Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ (book)
          • Fierce Conversations: achieving success at work and in life one conversation at a time (book)
          • HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Collaboration (collection of articles)
          • HBR's 10 Must-Reads on Communication (collection of articles)
          • HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (book)
          • Insight: the surprising truth about how others see us, how we see ourselves, and why the answers matter more than we think (book)
          • Mastering Collaboration: Make Working Together Less Painful and More Productive (book)
          • No One Understands You (and what to do about it) (book)
          • Reinforcements: How to Get People to Help You (book)
          • Soft Skills for the Effective Lawyer (book)
          • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Book)

           

          LISTEN

          • Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson (podcast)
          • Worklife with Adam Grant (podcast)

           

          WATCH

          • 10 Ways to Have a Better Conversation (TED Talk)
          • Don't fail fast — fail mindfully (TED Talk)
          • The gift and power of emotional courage (TED Talk)
          • How to ask for help — and get a yes (TED Talk) 
          • How to disagree productively and find common ground (TED Talk)
          • How miscommunication happens (and how to avoid it) (TED Talk)
          • Increase your self-awareness with one simple fix (TED Talk)
          • Process feedback with a strainer, not a sponge (TED Talk)

          DO

          • Emotional Intelligence (EI) Assessments via Daniel Goleman (assessments)
          • Foundations of Positive Psychology Specialization (University of Pennsylvania via Coursera, online course)
          • Hello Design Thinking (IDEO, online course)
          • Impactful Presentations (IDEO, online course)
          • Passport to Practice (virtual bootcamp for law students + lawyers)
          • VIA Character Strengths Survey (assessment)

          PROCESS playlist

          under construction

          PROCESS competencies:

          business development, business fundamentals, data analytics, data security, human-centered design, process selection/design/improvement, project management, technology

           

          READ

          • The Checklist (New Yorker article) + The Checklist Manifesto (book) 
          • Data Science Cheatsheet (PDF)
          • The Design of Everyday Things (book)
          • Legal Problem Solving (website with list of human-centered design guides + toolkits)
          • The Personal MBA (book)
          • The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World (book)

           

          LISTEN

          • HBR's Exponential View (podcast)
          • HBR's Ideacast (podcast)

           

          WATCH

          • 3 ways to spot a bad statistic (TED Talk)
          • Human-centered design (TED Talk)
          • The beauty of data visualization (TED Talk)

           

          DO

          • Introduction to Computer Science for Lawyers (Harvard edX)
          • Data Analysis and Presentation Skills: the PwC Approach (PwC via Coursera, online course)
          • Data Analytics Boot Camp (Vanderbilt University, online course)
          • Design a Business (IDEO, online course)
          • Document Automation Using Documate (Udemy, online course)
          • Finance for Nonfinance Professionals (Rice University via Coursera, online course) 
          • Introduction to Data Analytics for Business + Advanced Business Analytics for Business (University of Colorado at Boulder via Coursera, online course)
          • Six Sigma Principles + Six Sigma Green Belt (University of Georgia via Coursera, online course) 

          PRACTICE playlist

          under construction

          PRACTICE competencies:

          case analysis, case framing, issue-spotting, legal analysis, legal judgment, legal research, legal writing, subject matter expertise

           

          READ:

          • Typography for Lawyers (website and book)
          DO:
          • Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass (Ken Adams, online course)

        Design Your Delta

        Alyson Carrel

        a-carrel@law.northwestern.edu
        Cat Moon

        c.moon@vanderbilt.edu

        © Design Your Delta

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