Vacating the chair to make a presentation
Karen from Doubleview in Western Australia has asked about the protocol when vacating the chair to make a presentation.
Presiding over a meeting as the chair or chairman or chairperson is a role not a physical position. So if in your role of chairing the meeting, you physically move in order to carry out a duty or function, then you do not cease to be the chair of that meeting.
Even though you may be a member of an organisation which actually has a gavel which is used by the chair, if the chair moves away from the gavel, it does not mean that they...
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