Target Training International, Ltd.
Our work at the individual and team level on interpersonal dynamics and talent performance metrics features technology developed by Target Training International Ltd. a research and technology partner of Leadskill based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
TTI has done enormous research and advanced the science of behavior, values and personal talent, while the software programs developed at TTI have transformed this human performance research into a compatible tool for today’s workplace. TTI’s assessments stand as the most reliable and valid assessments in the marketplace and are used by over 5 million people worldwide for personal and professional development and effectiveness.
Bill Bonnstetter and his son, Dave Bonnstetter, founded Target Training International in 1984. Together they lead the development of the world’s industry-leading assessments and continue to enhance, develop and validate assessment-based solutions that drive results.
- TTI was the first to develop and introduce computerized and personalized reports based on the four-dimensional behavior model. (1984)
- TTI was also the first to personalize reports based on 384 different behavioral graphs. (1984)
- TTI was the first to validate stress as a factor of strong disparity, or difference gap, between Graph I and Graph II. (1984)
- TTI was the first to validate the insignificance of Graph III in the behavioral model when disparity is significant between Graph I and Graph II. (1984)
- TTI became the first to validate the absence of a behavior is just as important as the presence, incorporating the absence of behaviors into the computerized behavioral reports. (1984)
- TTI was the first to research and create computerized reports that meet the needs of specific jobs, for example sales and customer service behavioral reports. (1986)
- TTI was the first to create a computerized attitudes and values assessment instrument. (1990)
- TTI developed the first software on the market to merge behaviors and values into one report (1992), receiving a patent for the integration. (1996)
- TTI was the first to create a 60-section wheel to help map and explain behavioral styles. (1992)
- TTI was the first company to design and introduce assessment software that allows selection of multi-lingual response forms and reports from 26 different languages. (1993)
- TTI was the first to integrate the software and Internet delivery to allow sending assessments, scoring the results, and creating and distributing a valid and accurate report. (1999) TTI later received a patent on this process. (2007)
- TTI was the first to validate how personal bias hinders the process of discovering real performance issues. (2000)
- TTI was the first to create a report combining behaviors, values and personal skills, referred to as TriMetrix®. (2002)
- TTI was the first to receive a patent for the online distribution method of assessments and reports, Internet Delivery Service (IDS)™. (2007)
