For awareness - Sharing this post on behalf of Matt Bolian: 2026 State of Sales Enablement is out. It was a labor of love getting this out (hundreds of survey results + 15 interviews).
My thoughts
I both expected and didn't expect what I found
I knew people had documented the process
I knew people didn't follow it.
I just didn't think it would be 36% of people
I knew teams that follow a process did better. I didn't know it was 6.3x better (stat held true regardless of team size)
AI give ability (to observe) but not yet accountability (to enforce / path for reps). We're doing something about that)
Next steps: The report has my thoughts on "what do we do from here."
Research Reveal: I'll be going through the findings live with the full scope of thoughts + implications on 4/12.
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I agree, but this is still the symptom, not the root cause. It is not workflows or process. It is trust between leadership and sellers. Yes, teams that inspect deals win. But it depends on what data you are inspecting and where the deal actually came from. Most teams get that wrong from the start. Then they enforce a process built on outdated frameworks. Top reps ignore it because it does not reflect reality. The best reps are not anti process. They are anti bad process. Enablement does not fail because people do not know what to do. It fails because the system does not make it easy to do it in the moment. Most teams also do not know how to inspect deals properly because the frameworks are broken and they use outdated methodologies.
