Crunch Time, BIG BUILDER, featuring Bill Carpitella. Current market conditions are no game and the stakes are nothing less than survival. You can't afford to ignore the fundamentals: hiring and hanging on to good employees, holding a customer's hand through sales, controlling jobsites, and building customer satisfaction.

Waiting in the Wings: Succession Planning for Success — With a succession plan and a process for developing future managers, you can ensure positive outcomes.

Excel or Else, by LIsa Marquis Jackson, BIG BUILDER. How smart companies can improve their talent pool and help over-achievers rise to the top…even in a downturn.

Playing for Keeps, BIG BUILDER. Retention tactics for tougher times.

Think Different, BIG BUILDER. The road through rough times may offer safer passage if one drives more aggressively.

Sales and Marketing Respond to Hard Times Nation’s Building News, featuring Jerry Costanzo. Recommendations for weathering the lull in sales.

The Run on Talent, by Lisa Marquis Jackson, BIG BUILDER. As community counts rise, builders find themselves at the mercy of a “hire power” to find, motivate, and retain top-notch teams to execute growth plans.

The Outsiders, by Lew Sichelman, BIG BUILDER. The "Texas Rangers" of the home building industry, veteran consultants can provide the insight needed to bring about real change.

Fresh Blend, by John Caulfield, BIG BUILDER. Northwest builder Ryan McGowen transforms his company by hiring outside counsel and big league talent to keep on track with ambitious goals.

Make Residential Construction the Industry of Choice, PROFESSIONAL BUILDER. The residential construction industry is beginning to understand that a company's only real competitive advantage in the marketplace is its people.

8 Tips for Builders of Any Size, by Bill Carpitella, PROFESSIONAL BUILDER. Tips for best practices in any home builder’s human resources department.

Sharrow Group Helps Homebuilders Optimize Mortgage Programs (06/16/05)

Homebuilding Veteran Brings Systems Analysis and Product Development Expertise to Sharrow Group Consulting Team (02/23/05)

Sharrow Group Adds Marketing Services (02/23/05)

Sharrow Group Introduces a Unique Recruitment Process and Adds to Team (02/23/05)

Stem the Flow: The Real Cost of Employee Turnover (02/14/05)

Finding and Keeping Great Talent (02/14/05)

Sharrow Group Organizes to Solve Homebuilders' Big Issues (10/15/04)

Newsletter: Finding and Keeping Great Talent (Feb/Mar 2005)
In today’s home building market, finding and retaining talented people is the difference between success and subsistence. Staff that meld high professional standards, customer service focus, and ongoing commitment to quality construction into efficient operations consistently deliver repeat buyers.

Newsletter: Ensuring a Path to Growing Your Home Building Company (Dec/Jan 2005)
Serving your customers should be “job #1” for all home building employees. That’s because the surest path to growth is a strong customer base, and the surest path to a strong customer base is exceeding every perception of customer value.

Brochures
People Excellence for Homebuilders

Tapping New Markets Brochure

Service Descriptions
People Related Offerings
Aligning Strategy, People, and Processes for Success

People Development Services
Increasing Sales Through High Productivity Marketing
Managing Turnover for Win-Win Results

Service Related Offerings
Integrating Mortgages for New Profits and New Buyers

Presentations
Raising the Talent Bar
This seminar, given by Bregg Smith and SCG colleagues Mike Hollister and Chuck Shields at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, showed builders how to interview, hire, orient and develop people for maximum results.

Other
Principal Biographies

Executive Search and Placement Process

Customer Testimonials

Candidate Links

Cost of Living Calculator
Realtor.com provides this salary comparison calculator and other useful relocation tools that include school reports and city and crime rate reports for your convenience in considering a move.

General Links

http://www.noburnforbuilders.com
Safer No-Burn® fire and mold protection products provide your homebuyers and you with an unprecedented level of safety and considerable savings.

http://www.nahb.org
National Association of Home Builders serves both builders and buyers, providing resources that both increase builder profits, and educate consumers, while advocating balanced public policy.

http://www.uli.org
Urban Land Institute is supported by members like Sharrow, who represent the spectrum of land use and real estate professionals committed to creating better places.

http://www.shrm.org
The Society for Human Resource Management provides comprehensive and essential resources to HR professionals and is the largest HR organization in the world.

http://www.isc.hbs.edu/pdf/US_Homebuilding_Industry.pdf
This presentation, given by Professor Michael E. Porter of Harvard Business School, is a useful resource for industry metrics and competitive assessment.

http://www.hopeinternational.org
HOPE International is a faith-based, non-profit organization focused on global poverty alleviation through microenterprise development. House for HOPE offers builders the chance to raise funds through their everyday work in their own neighborhoods.