Imagine That You Are a Skills Trainer for a Local

question 37

Essay

Imagine that you are a skills trainer for a local community center and you've been asked to give a talk to troubled couples about the importance of listening. In order to help these couples, you decide to focus your presentation on several barriers to effective listening. Pick at least three of the barriers identified in your textbook. For each, define the listening barrier, come up with an example of the behavior that is appropriate for your audience, and then suggest at least two ways that these couples can avoid the problems associated with that barrier in their relationships.

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Definitions:

Direct Labor-Hours

A measure of the total hours worked directly on the manufacturing of goods.

Machine-Hours

A unit of measure indicating the operational time of machinery, often used in manufacturing to allocate costs based on machine usage.

Predetermined Overhead Rate

An estimated rate used to assign manufacturing overhead costs to individual units of production, calculated at the beginning of a period.

Machine-Hours

The total hours that production machinery is operated within a given period, rephrased as the aggregate operational time of production equipment.