A considerably more intensive design I have used extensively in faculty-development programs in educational institutions, industry, government agencies, and voluntary organizations, is launched with a one-day workshop in which the participants get an exposure to the concepts of andragogy, self-diagnose their competency-development needs (using the model in Appendix B), and develop a learning contract. The design of this workshop is contained in Appendix I, Exhibit I-5. Every faculty member leaves the workshop, therefore, with a plan of continuing self-development. Some
institutions also have the faculty members form “learning networks" of from two to six people to meet periodically to monitor and help further one another's progress. A number of the institutions have also convened follow-up clinics a couple of months after the original workshop for the purpose of having the participants share their experiences, identify and get help on problems, and suggest additional needed resources. One institution, Gordon College, in Wenham, Massachusetts, has built its faculty-development program entirely around the use of what they call "growth contracts.