https://paradymshift.com/insights daily 0.75 2026-06-23 https://paradymshift.com/insights/the-high-cost-of-guessing-your-teams-capability-gaps monthly 0.5 2026-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/eed2be94-ee0f-41d6-a2a5-20abfc272b44/sales-capability-gaps-diagnose-before-training-paradym-shift.png Insights - The High Cost of Guessing Your Team's Capability Gaps - When revenue targets are missed, the most common leadership response is to schedule training. New methodology. An intensive workshop. A keynote to reset the room. Three months later, win rates are unchanged. The instinct to train is not wrong. The instinct to train without knowing what to fix is the problem. When revenue targets are missed, the most common leadership response is to schedule training. New methodology. An intensive workshop. A keynote to reset the room. Three months later, win rates are unchanged. The instinct to train is not wrong. The instinct to train without knowing what to fix is the problem. The gap is in diagnosis, not effort McKinsey research suggests fewer than half of sales leaders believe most of their reps have the capabilities required to succeed in today's market. That is a significant signal. But the more important question is: which capabilities, specifically, and in which parts of the sales process? Is performance breaking down in early-stage discovery? Is the team failing to build stakeholder consensus across complex buying committees? Are reps losing control under pricing pressure before value has been properly established? Is coaching too infrequent, too late, or focused on the wrong behaviours? These are distinct problems. They require distinct responses. A two-day negotiation workshop will not fix a team that cannot run an effective discovery conversation. A methodology refresh will not help reps who lack the commercial confidence to hold their price. Generic training applied to undiagnosed problems is a poor investment. It looks like action. It rarely produces change.. https://paradymshift.com/insights/why-pipeline-forecasts-miss-the-deal-quality-problem-hiding-in-plain-sight monthly 0.5 2026-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/d3de031b-8b6e-49bb-bfbc-320fec1663c9/pipeline-forecast-miss-deal-quality-realitiscan.png Insights - Why Pipeline Forecasts Miss: The Deal Quality Problem Hiding in Plain Sight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://paradymshift.com/insights/your-crm-loss-data-is-not-the-truth-here-is-what-to-do-about-it monthly 0.5 2026-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/70067990-d208-4d74-b289-6fdccd7a365e/crm-loss-reasons-vs-buyer-truth.png Insights - Your CRM Loss Data Is Not the Truth. Here Is What to Do About It. - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://paradymshift.com/insights/more-pipeline-is-not-always-the-answer monthly 0.5 2026-05-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/17d316da-bdc0-481f-94ac-406668820c5d/more-pipeline-is-not-the-answer-sales-diagnostics.png Insights - More Pipeline Is Not Always the Answer - For years, B2B sales leaders have relied on a familiar piece of sales maths: If we need to hit the number, we need more pipeline 3x coverage. 4x coverage. 5x coverage. So when revenue slows, the instinct is predictable. Generate more leads. Make more calls. Push more activity. Fill the funnel. But adding volume to a weak revenue system does not create better revenue performance. It often creates more expensive failure. If the deals entering the pipeline are poorly qualified, weakly aligned, or unlikely to convert, then more pipeline simply gives the team more of the wrong work to do. It is like pouring more water into a cracked bucket. The issue is not effort. The issue is leakage. https://paradymshift.com/insights/to-good-to-be-true monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1595130150932-STOSMATI4BDEG8NU5CAR/ian-schneider-66374-unsplash.jpg Insights - Too good to be true! - Too good to be true! Perhaps not always….. https://paradymshift.com/insights/2018/7/10/blog-headline-3 monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1586219098802-MGLROSHLAYW1Q7DOLH7O/Screen+Shot+2020-04-07+at+12.23.12+PM.png Insights - Should your salespeople perform like professional athletes? - Consider this Opportunity Analysis graph Situationally, if you were ‘red’ would you pursue this opportunity? What of ‘blue’? Read on…. https://paradymshift.com/insights/is-adequate-good-enough-to-survive-in-this-recessionary-world monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1590210975950-X4U1QF5KWAFKZNJJ1WV5/HeatMap+-+Blog.png Insights - Is adequate good enough to survive in this recessionary world? - One should question whether adequate is ever good enough. https://paradymshift.com/insights/who-moved-my-f-cheese monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1590385305439-A9FAL8L0NSD7941RILY8/susan-yin-Ctaj_HCqW84-unsplash.jpg Insights - Who moved my F%$ing Cheese! - Who moved my F%$ing Cheese! Nothing like total global socio-economic upheaval to make us realise the ‘cheese’ supply is now limited or even missing entirely. https://paradymshift.com/insights/time-to-realised-revenue-is-consistently-being-obliterated monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://paradymshift.com/insights/2018/7/10/salescoaching monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1592770965049-I0NY65K6U3DXFSMZHHYN/jeshoots-com-fzOITuS1DIQ-unsplash.jpg Insights - Professional athletes rely on coaches – do salespeople? - How is your coaching game plan? You could boost revenue by 25% and increase close rate by 70%. https://paradymshift.com/insights/swiss-rigidity-to-change-cost-millions monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1589767587581-JWU22M96BCMN1HZ0KJWY/age-barros-rBPOfVqROzY-unsplash.jpg Insights - Swiss rigidity to change, cost millions. - Swiss rigidity to change, cost millions. We can learn some lessons here with the current global Trump initiated list of living crisis. https://paradymshift.com/insights/the-story-of-the-shiny-lights-3ba92 monthly 0.5 2026-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1593575651159-R6W2ZJVJNSZQXI3N3O54/massimo-botturi-zFYUsLk_50Y-unsplash.jpg Insights - The story of the “Shiny Lights” - The story of the “Shiny Lights” Who’s in control or out of control? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1593841424208-H6ZK8HEHRHPHHOVG5IRI/ben-white-qDY9ahp0Mto-unsplash.jpg Insights - The story of the “Shiny Lights” - Really?! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d05172388b6c900012097b9/1593841793164-JSNZPMM92JRZWJI9470D/irfan-simsar-wxWulfjN-G0-unsplash.jpg Insights - The story of the “Shiny Lights” All of our recommendations were subsequently implemented within a relative short timeframe, with as a result that data quality, utilisation and ROI improved. On top of that, the sales leaders now have a single, global view of sales results, sales forecast, and customer details. We can provide you with many, many more stories of how businesses are wasting so much money with the wrong approach when it comes to implementing and supporting their CRM system. In fact, we can write a bookshelf full of books on how not to implement a CRM system. 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