Paradym Shift Insights
Insights that help you diagnose before you decide.
Practical thinking on sales performance, revenue diagnostics, opportunity management, customer value, capability, and the hidden gaps that constrain commercial growth.
Evidence-led thinking
Explore the issues behind sales performance.
Use these insights to sharpen judgement before investing in training, process, technology, enablement, or deeper diagnostic work.
Start with practical perspectives on the sales performance gaps leaders often sense before they can prove.
Should your salespeople perform like professional athletes?
This simple and possibly overused analogy contains more than an element or two of truth! Consider for a moment, All Blacks, 49ers or Manchester United athletes. They dedicate days, weeks, months and even years perfecting their knowledge and skill to compete. The driving ambition is to embed every aspect of the game plan into their DNA so that their body and mind executes flawlessly.
Time to realised revenue is consistently being obliterated.
In this uncertain global socio-political and inflation pressurised world, buyer-sellers’ priorities and interactions have and will continue to change. Gartner research predicts that non-digital interactions between buyers and sellers in the next 3 – 5 years will account for only 20% of the buyers’ journey.
Consider this and the impact that 75% of B2B companies’ highest priority is to close more deals and that 67% of deals are lost because they are not properly qualified before initiating the sales process.