This is a tried-and-true meeting format that can be used as a starting point for your own meeting design.

In this section, only the general ordering and suggested timings are explained, but no details are given about how each of the roles works. This information can be obtained in the "Club Meeting Roles" chapter.

The meeting format is essentially the same regardless of whether the meeting is physical or online.

Before the Meeting

The Meeting Facilitator should arrive well in advance of the scheduled starting time of the meeting. He or she should:

• Prepare the venue - tables, chairs, lectern, location of club and Agora symbols, etc.
• Prepare the tools that the Timer will use to measure and signal the time (stopwatch, "traffic" lights colored cardboard, etc.).
• Print the agenda.
• If applicable, check that the lighting, sound system, and projection equipment work properly.
• If the club has recording equipment, set it up and prepare it for recording.

For Online meetings, the Meeting Facilitator should launch the meeting at least 15 minutes before the official starting time.

Materials needed

Physical Meetings

For a physical club meeting, you will need the following minimum materials:

• A stopwatch for timing speeches.

• Some way to signal time limits to the speaker. This is done via green, yellow and red indicators. You can use lights or simply colored pieces of paper.

• Feedback forms for the audience. All members from the audience (even guests) can give their evaluation to every speaker on these feedback forms. You can get customizable templates for feedback forms - such as the one below - from the Branding portal (www.agoraspeakers.org/brand.jsp).

You can use the provided template, or you can create your own.

• Pens for the audience and (especially) for the Timer and the Grammarian

• Printed agendas for the meeting

• The Word of the Day, printed on one or two sheets of paper, in big letters, so that it can be seen by the speakers and by the audience at a distance.

• Sheets of paper (or preferably, templates) for the Grammarian, Timer, and Filler Word Counter.

Online Meeting

For Online Meeting, it's good to have at hand the following links and materials, in case their corresponding roles have forgotten to

• Links to the Zoom Backgrounds that the Timer can use.
• Links to the Asset Creator so that the Grammarian and the Timer can generate their templates and backgrounds.
• Pre-generated PDF versions of the Evaluation Sheets for each project and role. (These can be generated automatically from the page for each role and project)
• A pre-generated PDF for the General Feedback Form that members who are not evaluators can use to provide feedback to speakers.

Meeting

Part I - Initiation

1. Usually, the Meeting Facilitator calls to order and opens the meeting, welcomes everyone, then provides a concise introduction to the person in the meeting leader's role for the day and gives the floor to him.

2. The Meeting Leader welcomes everyone. Some good things that a Meeting Leader can do at this point are:

• Reminding everyone to turn off their mobile phones. For Online meetings, apart from this, ask that people turn off any possible sources of interference and close the door of the room they're in.
• Reminding everyone not to walk across the room during the speeches.
• For Online meetings, remind everyone that safety and decorum must be present at all times. This means that no one should be driving or doing other dangerous activities during the meeting. Everyone should be dressed properly, and finally, everyone should have their cameras on at all times.
• If there are any guests, providing a general introduction about Agora Speakers International and the club, its purpose, mission and what we do, and in which way.

• If there are any guests, this is also a good opportunity to have each of them stand up and introduce themselves to the audience. Usually, the Meeting Leader can also ask a simple question like "how do you know us?" or "what brought you here?", etc.

Part II - The Evaluation Team

3. The Meeting Leader gives the floor to the Timer for 1-2 min, who explains his role, why timing is important, and how the time signals work

4. The Meeting Leader gives the floor to the Grammarian for 1-2 min, who explains his role and the things he is going to look for.

5. The Meeting Leader gives the floor to the Filler Word Counter for 1-2 min, who explains his role, the importance of not using filler words, and some examples of them.

Part III- Projects

6. For each Project, the Meeting leader:

• Calls upon the Speech Evaluator to explain the objectives of the speech
• Calls upon the Speaker to deliver the speech
• Gives the audience between 1-2 minutes so that everyone can write their feedback to the speaker.

7. After the prepared speeches part is over, the Meeting Leader gives the floor to the Hot Questions Master, who proceeds with this section. Usually, this section is about 15 minutes long, with each answer to Hot Question being between 1-2 minutes long.

Part IV - Speech Evaluations

8. After the previous section is done, the Meeting Evaluator calls the Speech Evaluators to deliver their evaluations, each evaluation being 3-5 minutes long.

9. After all the Speech Evaluations are delivered, the Hot Questions Evaluator takes the stage and presents his report. This evaluation is about 5-7 minutes long

10. Optional. If your club has a Listening Evaluator, now it would be a good opportunity for that role.

Part V - Technical Evaluations and Conclusion

11. After the previous part is finished, the Filler Word Counter, Grammarian, and Timer present their reports, for 1-2 minutes each, usually in reverse order in which they participated at the beginning of the meeting

12. Finally, the Meeting Evaluator presents his overall evaluation of the meeting and all the evaluators. This part usually lasts for 5-7 minutes

13. The Meeting Leader gives the floor to anyone (especially club officers) that needs to make announcements.

14. The Meeting Leader gives the floor to the Meeting Facilitator, who closes the meeting.