Read the text below. for each abstract, choose the best title.
a) be inclusive,
b) be positive
c) be selfless
d) be organized
e) be attentive
1. contact your speakers in advance, either at the conference or via email, to check if they’re happy for you to use their biography and title from the conference programme (people quite often change the focus of their paper by the time they come to present). 2. do not give one speaker more prominence than the others; whoever they might be; highlight each person’s key publications and achievements equally. 3. keep anecdotes about your own research to coffee time and let the speakers take the spotlight. if you find links with your own work, or think of references that might help to inform speakers’ research, talk to them or email them later. 4. you are the chairman, in full view of the room, so listen attentively and take notes on relevant points that could be used for questions later. don’t fidget, or yawn. 5. ensure that everyone who wants to speak has the opportunity to do so, and try to read faces and feel the silences. this way you know when the questions have dried up and it’s time to thank the speakers and the audience, and say how great the session has been. when the time for the panel to end arrives, tie things up (even if there are more questions), allowing everyone to happily head for tea and biscuits or to the pub – where they won’t talk about you, because you did your job so well.

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