But once you start to analyze your organization and involve your staff, you have to tell them about the results, and listent to their comments. Then, it is up to the management to decide whether you continue the path for becoming a learning organization or not. You might adopt only a few ideas of the concept. But if you want to start a real process of change, you need the full support of your employees - otherwise it will inevitably fail. SWOT strength, weaknesses, opportunities and threats has meanwhile become a standard tool for organizational analysis.
Transect walk is a tool that is taken from Participatory Rural Appraisal.
It helps to visualize the psycho-geography of your organization. Mapping your organization like transect walk, it is a visualization of your organization, but in more detail. Venn diagram is another graphical expression for communication structures and relationships in your organization. Exploring the conscious and the unconscious of your organization a questionnaire that looks behind the obvious structures and tries to explore the hidden agenda of organizations.