Skanska
Skanska
Driving Collaboration and High-Performance Teams: How Skanska Uses PROPHET for Project Success
Summary:
Skanska employs approximately 27,000 people across construction and development, operating in the Nordics, Europe, and the United States. Collaboration with its supply chain is essential for successful project delivery. Partnerships are a key element in how Skanska delivers projects across various sectors and geographies. In the UK alone, Skanska spends £1.3 billion annually with over 5,000 suppliers who share the company’s commitment to safety, sustainability, diversity, and ethics. Successful collaboration and teamwork are vital to project delivery.
Use cases
Since 2018, Skanska has used PROPHET to drive the success of its project and business teams. Team members complete the PROPHET questionnaire to receive their Individual Profiles, while Team Insight Reports offer tailored insights for each project team. Periodically, Organisational Insight Reports are used to provide senior leaders with a data-driven approach to linking people insights with commercial outcomes.
Challenge
Given that project teams are constantly evolving, Skanska needed a solution to strengthen team dynamics, helping individuals understand team culture and their contributions so teams can achieve high performance quickly. The company sought a methodology that was easy to implement, simple to administer internally, and could be led by the core HR team, providing them with the insights and value to bring to the business.
Solution
Skanska has an accredited internal team that uses PROPHET across the business. At the start of each new project or for key business teams, all members complete their profiles and receive their Individual Profiles. Project leaders then receive the Team Insight Report, which provides development insights and actionable recommendations for team success. At the business level, Organisational Insight Reports identify trends and commercial implications across project teams, linking people and relationships to key success factors.
Results
PROPHET supports Skanska in developing collaborative relationships, enabling close partnerships that manage risk and drive improvement. Since 2018, around 30 project teams and 600 individuals have benefited from PROPHET insights, strengthening relationships, supporting people development, and enhancing performance.
