What Makes People Stay or Jump Ship with Nicolas Vandenberghe of Chili Piper

In 2021 38 million people left their jobs and found new ones. This accounts for 57.3% attrition for US-based companies.  It seems as the trend continues as 4.3 million people quit in January of this year as well.

A lot of companies are experiencing turnover today and It makes one wonder, who is winning?

The companies that are winning today are those that focus on their people. Focusing on setting systems to enable productivity, fostering personal growth, career-pathing, and quite frankly, listening to what their people want.

Gone are the days of providing free snacks and providing a ping pong table. What people want is much deeper now and requires more effort. what are you doing that is improving their lives and professional growth? If you are unwilling to provide it, they’ll just go somewhere else.

 Guest Bio:

Nicolas Vandenberghe is the co-founder and CEO of Chili Piper, a SaaS platform helping B2B companies double their inbound conversion rates. Since its founding in 2016, the SaaS platform has thrived with a 100% remote work culture. 

Nicolas is a four-time serial entrepreneur, in diverse verticals from consumer software to biometrics. He builds his companies under the principles of flexibility, professional growth and communication.

Today we discuss:

What makes people stay or jump ship
How to make your company sticky for retention

Challenges today?

Great resignation
People quit managers

Why is this important to the company?

Internal promotions keeps people growing
Teaching management 
Avoid hostility in communication 
Non violence communication training
Especially applicable to managers
Avoid conflict without avoiding disagreements
Conflict around the disagreement- NOT GOOD

How do we solve the problem? 

Flexibility
High performers - no barriers
Anywhere in the world
No schedule requirement (exception) scheduled meetings 
Open & accepting of everyone
Unlimited vacation schedule

*** Professional growth- formailized 
Quality of the work focus
Okr’s - not kpi’s- Actions to yield to projected outcome
 Avoid ultimatums, were expectations correct
Hired 3 coaches 
Developing a piper plan
Getting it out to eht puclic
Abolish performance review
Proactive 

Communication hostility avoidance
 Method to rethink your engagements
 Training everyone on the book 

Rick’s Nuggets

Career pathing - Huge retention 
Link everything to help- core value

Key Takeaways that the Audience can plug into their business today! (Value):

Professional development. Work on the foundation

Guest Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nvandenberghe/
Company: http://www.chilipiper.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/chilipiper/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/chilipiper/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeamChiliPiper/

Host Links:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/
Company: https://www.stridesearch.com/
Podcast: https://www.hirepowerradio.com
Authored:  "Healing Career Wounds"  https://amzn.to/3tGbtre
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