Project management and change management

PeopleSkills leads change projects where behaviors, working methods and implementation need to be kept together over time.

We often come in when the organization knows what it wants to change but needs someone who can drive the work from analysis and planning to implementation, anchoring and follow-up.

Ulf Dennholt enjoys working closely with the business as a project manager and advisor. The focus is on making the change work in actual everyday life, not just in the project plan.

When is project management needed in a change process?

Change work often becomes difficult when responsibility lies between several functions or when the regular organization must simultaneously manage daily operations.

PeopleSkills can then step in as an external project manager and hold the work together. This can involve creating structure, bringing together affected groups, driving activities forward, following up on what is happening and ensuring that decisions are actually implemented in everyday life.

The assignment can be limited to a part of the change or run over a longer period of time, close to managers, employees and others involved in the business.

Project management with a focus on behavior change

Many change projects have clear goals and good plans but still get stuck in the implementation. The difference often lies in what people actually do in their everyday lives.

PeopleSkills combines project management with applied behavioral analysis, TBA, and Organizational Behavior Management, OBM. This means that we follow activities and schedules and also identify the behaviors that need to change for the project to be effective.

The work can include analysis, anchoring, training, feedback, measurement and follow-up close to the business.

Examples of project management in practice

Waste Sweden, U 1299 Waste sorting in diversity
Project manager for behavioral change in Avfall Sverige's development project U 1299. The project is about how sorting in apartment buildings can be increased through better understanding of target groups, communication and the behaviors that affect sorting. The work is carried out together with actors in the waste and housing sectors and includes analysis, coordination, behavioral perspectives and practical implementation.

Guest recycler
Two assignments. Behavioral support in the Närsorterat project, where households are to sort into more fractions already at home and sorting needs to become easier and more common. Behavioral intervention at recycling centers with three goals: reduce the proportion of waste that goes to energy recovery, increase employee safety and visitor satisfaction.

When is PeopleSkills suitable as a project manager?

PeopleSkills is suitable as a project manager when the change is about more than schedule and budget: about getting people to start working in new ways.

This may be when several functions or activities need to be coordinated, when the change requires support from managers and employees, or when the organization needs someone who can combine structure with an understanding of behavior and implementation.

The assignments can be shorter and clearly defined or run over a longer period of time as part of the business's development work.

Talk to Ulf about a change project

Do you have a change that needs to be driven from decision to actual everyday life?

Get in touch and we'll start with what you want to achieve, which parts need to be held together and what role PeopleSkills can play in the implementation.