Training

Ascent’s lawyers are passionate about training.  To them, training their client’s human resources, legal, and management employees is the most effective pathway to real engagement, real partnership, and real learning.  And unlike most legal trainings, Ascent does not believe in the all too familiar long, drawn out PowerPoint with a droning lawyer in the background.  Ascent’s employment and legal skills trainings are engaging and intentionally interactive by incorporating a “learning by doing” philosophy.

Most of our trainings are delivered in a workshop setting where attendees strategize in a small group setting and apply knowledge we impart during the training. We incorporate actors and role play. This creates a lively and interactive learning environment where participants are encouraged to make mistakes and learn from them.

Our training spans the entire panoply of employment law topics including, but not limited to:

  • Breach of collective bargaining agreements

  • Discrimination, Harassment, and Retaliation Prevention

  • Respect in the Workplace

  • Positive Employee Relations

  • Inclusion, Equity and Diversity

  • Workplace Investigations

  • Handling ADA and FMLA Issues

  • Wage and Hour Compliance

  • Leadership and Management Skills

  • Lawful Hiring

  • Lawful Performance Management

  • Lawful Terminations

  • Lawfully Operating in a Unionized Workplace

Meet Professional Actor, Torsten Hillhouse
Training Partner to Ascent Employment Law

I’ve been a professional actor for almost 30 years. For the last decade, I have partnered with a wide variety of businesses providing leadership communication and coaching for managers, senior executives, attorneys, and physicians.