Cranfield show that Silent Edge have worked out the competencies
that drive successful sales.
Silent Edge’s data and approach has been analysed by Cranfield
School of Management. They applied sophisticated statistical models
to the Silent Edge data and have concluded that the model shows that
the competencies that Silent Edge have defined really help drive
sales performance.
The analysis also demonstrates that there are 8 different types of
sales people from the very poor (Group 1) to Master Sales Person
(Group 8). The shocking conclusion is that only 12% of new business,
2% of telesales and 4% of all account managers surveyed are in the
Master Sales person category.