Testimonials

I’ve always seen VOLTI as a classy business that is willing to invest in my business and my personal successes. The work I did with gratitude helped me through some tough times. I created a blueprint for what I know I need to get back to doing and set myself and SOS up for success.

It’s a trick to describe the VOLTI process since it is so different from a typical “How to Run a Start-up/Business” instruction manual! VOLTI graciously mentored our small start-up. With lots to learn, we expected a basic “Introduction to Business” jargon-filled tutorial. Instead, we received step-by-step strategies that went beyond being spoon-fed. VOLTI opened an enlightened approach to making tough decisions. From a simple search of Gratitude, you’ll know what a Gratitude list can do for you and why VOLTI and Charles Acklin and is on ours!

VOLTI provides a unique perspective into the unusual challenges we faced as a growing company. He provided tools and coaching to help us reduce our roadblocks from mountains to molehills.

My nearly 20-year association with Chuck Acklin began when I was a newly minted, 32-year-old Region Distribution Manager for Fresenius Medical Care. Fresenius was amidst a post-merger environment following its acquisition of a competitor. One result of the merger was the co-mingling of Fresenius’ organic and newly acquired storage and distribution facilities — including eight that I was entrusted with — along with their respective (but differing) corporate cultures and norms. Chuck’s training program created a common platform for the team to examine how to measure, track, share, and evolve results. The level of training engagement encompassed a full spectrum, from hourly associates to supervisors and managers. In this way, Chuck’s methods aided me in empowering my team. The “language of results” became pervasive and assisted me in effectively leading my region and collaborating with my counterpart, the other region manager, on areas of common interest. Within two months, my part reversed its P+L into positive territory and made a budget every quarter through my departure three years later. Chuck’s techniques were enduring and positively influenced my personal life — my marriage and fatherhood, for example — particularly in goal setting and leveraging my strengths. I still have some of the work products from his training sessions and refer to them from time to time today.

John earned a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Executive Development. In August 2017, I described VOLTI in a meeting with David Warner and John. John said as we walked to our cars, "There is nothing as easy to learn and sustainable available in the United States as what VOLTI developed."

I enjoyed Charles Acklin’s insight and VOLTI’s simplification of this pathway to improve.

You've been a true mentor and more. Reflection (and you) also taught me there are many varieties of personalities, mixed with various cultural and even self-inflicted factors that can make or break a business relationship or project. And while it's one thing to come in with a virtual briefcase full of templates or solutions, it's quite another to be able to walk up to anyone, listen to their "story," and be able to adapt, support, guide, or - if needed, to share with that individual precisely what they (not I) may need. you've taught me how to help others help themselves. To be a guide and a project "sherpa.” This wasn't completely done with consulting "tools" nor the various books you've had me read (which did help, by the way). Your love and passion did this for guiding me (us) to do the right things while helping me manage to learn. I will forever be grateful for the artful approach you and VOLTI have taught me how to succeed through the success of assisting others to learn to motivate themselves. Sincerely and gratefully yours,

VOLTI was active in my plant. Managers and supervisors who engaged their teams with VOLTI experienced fewer performance/behavior challenges than those who chose not to engage VOLTI. Those participating with VOLTI implemented and sustained my plant Development Dimensions International initiatives and Corporate Wide Training (Development Dimensions International, Pacific Institute, Covey Leadership, and DiSC) with greater ease and measurable Human Resources and Production improvements than those without VOLTI : Supervisors improved their leadership ability as measured by the: Morale - Team member complaints about Supervisors decreased. Satisfaction -Team member morale and job satisfaction improved. Production - Team member efficiency increased. I was skeptical when I first learned about VOLTI’s involvement. My endorsement for VOLTI came when I realized the simplicity and power VOLTI delivers. The VOLTI System creates sustainability for existing training. That sustainability continues while others who only participated in training forgot or returned to less productive efforts within six months of their training experience. VOLTI provided a way that enabled each participant to use Good Management Practices actively. Those managers embraced every corporate and plant initiative so that I could show significant program successes from their groups. Those using VOLTI processes caused me to realize greater returns on my plant training investment. VOLTI supports training, behavior, and production improvement in ways other activities cannot. VOLTI makes other training initiatives work the way its presenters describe how their program should work.

I highly recommend Charles Acklin and his process “Results by VOLTI” to any company committed to improving their team’s level of performance. He has a unique way of teaching and helping companies' employees deliver results and develop personal satisfaction. He is one of the most outstanding leaders I have ever met. He is continually searching for new ideas and techniques to build confidence, improve skills, and obtain the results necessary to be world-class. I have had the privilege of knowing and working with Charles for over 12 years while employed by a world-class medical device manufacturing company. During that time, I worked with him to develop my team’s self-confidence and deliver the results to improve the quality and efficiency of production to be considered world-class. His process is straightforward to use. He delivers exactly what he claims with his program “Results.”

I will not be going to the Florida conference and Troy will be giving the training presentation. Troy McGhee mentioned twice how much he liked the presentation, and we know that it is due to your creativity and persistence to get it right. I want to thank you for all the work you did on that project. You went above and beyond the call of duty. I will continue to work with you on our list of training projects and involve you with the new HR Director when they arrive.