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    Design Your Delta

    • Home
    • Learn 
      • The Delta Model
      • Resources
      • In The News
    • Implement 
      • Design Your Delta Toolkit
      • Playlists
      • Playbooks
      • Coaching
    • Contact
    • Blog
    • …  
      • Home
      • Learn 
        • The Delta Model
        • Resources
        • In The News
      • Implement 
        • Design Your Delta Toolkit
        • Playlists
        • Playbooks
        • Coaching
      • Contact
      • Blog
      • Playlists

        Beta v.1

        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
      • The People

        (under construction)

        PEOPLE competencies include 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)
      • The Process

        (under construction)

        PROCESS competencies include business development, business fundamentals, data analytics, data security, human-centered design, process selection/design/improvement, project management, and technology fluency.

         

        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

        • 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)
      • The Practice

        (under construction)

        PRACTICE competencies include case analysis, case framing, issue-spotting, legal analysis, legal judgment, legal research, legal writing, and subject matter expertise.

         

        Read

        • Typography for Lawyers (website and book)

        Listen

        • Coming Soon

        Watch

        • Coming soon

        Do

        • Drafting Clearer Contracts: Masterclass (Ken Adams, online course)
      • Check out the rest of the toolkit.

        PLAYBOOKS
        COACHING

      Contact Us                       

      Alyson Carrel

      a-carrel@law.northwestern.edu

      Cat Moon

      c.moon@vanderbilt.edu

       

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