Weisbord presents a six-box model for understanding organizations:
Purposes: The organization members are clear about the organization's mission and purpose and goal agreements, whether people support the organization's purpose.
Structure: How is the organization's work divided up? The question is whether there is an adequate fit between the purpose and the internal structure.
Relationship: Between individuals, between units or departments that perform different tasks, and between the people and requirements of their jobs.
Rewards: The consultant should diagnose the similarities between what the organization formally rewarded or punished members for.
Leadership: Is to watch for blips among the other boxes and maintain balance among them.
Helpful mechanism: Is a helpful organization that must attend to in order to survive which as planning, control, budgeting, and other information systems that help organization member accomplish.