Why do we call the person in charge of a meeting "chair" (chairperson, chairman, chairwoman)?
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If I remember my Introduction to Political Sciences and History correctly, you hit the nail in one! Originally, discussion/meeting was people all standing (Plato, Socrates and later political groups: Elizabethan England, etc), except for the person in charge, he (yes, usually a he) would sit on a throne and "listen".
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Moderator is a loose term. It depends on the moderator's role. If he is purely there to supervise, than no. However, if he has a consultative role, he can then consult both parties to try and get a winner. If he is there as a arbiter, he can then decide who wins.
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Typically this would be an upper management level position who reports to the CIO (Chief Information Office) and supervises those who manage the hardware, software, communications, etc.  Unless we're talking about a small organization, this person probably wears a suit, spends most of their time managing and in meetings, and doesn't write code, fix broken printers, or handle help desk calls.\n\nBut don't get me wrong - in a large organization, when you have 100 or more subordinates, it a big job to manage all that - they don't normally have the TIME to write code, fix broken printers, or handle help desk calls.\n\nBut in a small organization, you regularly see the director doing hands-on stuff as well.
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There's the old "divide up the work and combine them later so that I can go back to sleep" method.  Or the "let's have everyone work on one part of the project at the same time right now so we can discuss" method.\n\nWhen the group is actually together, I'm guessing it's most productive to have an agenda so the team doesn't get sidetracked.  Then, have a sort of group leader make sure everyone contributes and stays on the agenda.
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There's no 'chair', and infact the way that Britain is run is nothing like in the US. The boss of the two houses is the Queen, who has no power. Britain was previously made similar to a republic when Charles I was killed and Cromwell ran the country, but the British brought kings back because they're funny and provide scandal, but the people made all monarch's powers redundant.\n\nMPs in the house of commons are elected by citizens and stay there until the next election is called, normally every 5 years.\n\nThe house of lords is occupied by the lords, consisting of religious lords (bishops), law lords, life peers and hereditary lords. Hereditary lords are the ones that inherit their title and are useless. Life peers are offered a 'peerage' because they've done something good, and the government want them in parliament.
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Usually the chairman is the head of the board of directors....they represent the investors in the company but don't necessarily take part in the day-to-day operations.\nThe CEO is Chief Executive Officer.....most times you will see that appointment bestowed on the president. He is in charge of running the operation.
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If the board of directors of a corporation need to discuss business between regular board meetings, a notification has to go to all boardmembers as to the time and date and location of the meeting. \nThe laws regulating corporations have many requirements for meetings and agendae. \nA Board Called Meeting is not a scheduled meeting required for specific business, but rather a meeting in which one board member can request the Board Chairman to convene a meeting to discuss urgent business without waiting for the next scheduled board meeting.
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If she's your line manager and/or is authorised to delegate work to you, and if such a task is in your job description, then you have to do it.  Could be worse, you could've had to take the minutes too.  But if your in tray is overflowing and you have more pressing priorities, tell her you can't do it until x date (you must be able to justify this) and does she want to give it to someone else?\n\nIf it's really that onerous, suggest to the chair that they just do an action sheet rather than minutes, that way you only have to type up the tasks that everyone has to undertake further to the meeting, not all the minutiae of the discussion.
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a person in a company or business org, who organizes the general project.helps to get it started   coordinator is about the same they are often called staff
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Person responsible for the implimentation and delegation of decisions made by the board of directors and/or General Manager.
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Usually, it's the parliamentarian. If you don't have a parliamentarian (get one next year), then someone like the sargeant at arms or someone who has a formal position of enforcing the rules. You could just randomly select individuals from the organization body to make up the "constitution committee" which would be more constitutional and democratic.
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Depends on what the project is, but generally a project manager is in charge of the job (database roll out for example).  They make sure that the timelines and deliverables are met.  They schedule and chair meetings.  They plan and possibly do the budgets.
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The Speaker of the House (what you're calling house majority leader) has more power because that's the way our Founding Fathers set it up.  Senators are not necessarily more powerful than House members.  Newly-elected Senators are much less powerful than House committee chairpersons.  The Committee chairmen of Appropriations, Rules and Ways and Means are extremely powerful.  Congressmen would much rather have these jobs than Senate Majority Leader.  With Appropriations and Ways and Means you're controlling the purse of the country and with Rules, you're controlling the agenda.
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The presenter.  If I'm presenting a project to a board for approval, it's essential that they understand what it is that I'm presenting, whether they ask questions or not.  If I want the apporval, then I'd have to make sure that everyone understood, and not hope that they did.
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An agenda is items to be discussed. The agenda should outline time date and place of the meeting and should include every item of business for discussion at the meeting including general business for the meeting. \n\nIt is the duty of the secretary to send out the agenda by e-mail or letter or both to those people who may attend. This is normally relevant staff or members of an organisation. He or she should also send out the minutes of the previous meeting and advise the president of apologies received.
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When I am in a meeting I delegate another person ( not in the meeting) to handle any urgent phone calls\nmy cell phone is OFF when I am in a meeting\nI consider taking phone calls during a meeting  rude  behaviour and a insult to all those in the meeting
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Chairman\nBoard of Directors\nChief Executive Officer\nPresident - The president’s role is to manage and be responsible for the day-to-day affairs of the company.  The board sets policy, the president executes that policy and reports back to the board, and the board then reports to the shareholders, or owners, of the company. \nExecutive Vice President or Chief Officers (IT, Sales, Operations,etc)\nSr. Vice President\nExecutive Directors\nDirectors\nSr. Managers\nManagers\nSr. Supervisors\nSupervisors