E I believe I may be wrong, hope this helps.
Answer:
These workshops will prepare you to lead your division in the event of a company crisis functions as a support sentence in this paragraph. It explains the purpose of the workshops. Paragraph coherence occurs when the ideas in a paragraph are linked and there is a logical flow from one idea to the next.
b. listen with empathy
The key characteristic for one listening with empathy is to give the speaker your undivided attention. Because Jeff fell asleep, he obviously had not been providing this. Further, when one is empathetic, one is able to understand the position/place of someone else. Obviously, if Jeff were speaking, he would want his audience to pay attention, so he should have recognized this and been conscious of that for Elizabeth. By Jeff falling asleep, he does not understand the perspective of someone else in order to recognize how to respectfully listen (or listen with empathy).