Curriculum Analysis for Global Law Firm
The Client Need
"The firm saw an opportunity to update and enhance the practice’s onboarding curriculum. We needed help leveraging best-in-class tools and strategies to enhance learner engagement and retention."
- Global Law Firm
The Design
A curriculum analysis for the firm’s Capital Markets practice. The growing practice sought to make its onboarding process more efficient, engaging, and memorable.
Audience: International associates, tenures 1-3
Skills in Focus: Capital Markets onboarding, new hire skills
Features: Custom-built, metrics-based evaluation rubric used to rank courses across 4 performance categories
The Details
Socratic Arts analysis included 27 1st -3rd year courses, which were analyzed using a custom-built rubric that ranked them across four performance criteria.
Socratic Arts identified opportunities to integrate audience interaction and break up lecture-based presentations to drive engagement, increase knowledge retention, and make knowledge more applicable.
Recommendations included light-to-moderate redesigns of roughly half the existing courses.
The needs analysis findings will form the basis of a 1-to-3-year plan to modernize the practice’s top priority courses and create new high-demand skills learning.
