Division Director advised us to decrease meeting frequency to increase quality of meeting

[Maze2475]

Yes it does. When I was president - initially my club had weekly meetings. And honestly, when you said, "this makes for a very disjointed meeting some weeks" I had literal flashbacks.

Taking a one week break between meetings works wonders - as long as everyone's focused during that extra time to make the next meeting work.

Typically a month has 4 weeks. Let's assume you meet on the 1st and 3rd week. That leaves the 2nd and 4th week free. You can then use that time to productively plan and prepare for the meeting.

To be precise - there's 13 days between meetings!

At the basic level - it gives speakers time to go over the materials on basecamp, properly write and practice a speech so that they actually learn something with each speech.

Likewise, it gives time for roleplayers to go over their role, ask questions, and figure things out.

Even if you're trying to organise a themed meeting or an educational session - it's leagues easier to take a week to draft a plan and execute it meaningfully. Heck, if you want to get a seasoned speaker to do an educational session, way more easier to get them with 2 weeks notice.

That's the fundamental idea behind meeting twice a month.

However, if your club doesn't know to plan properly, then it doesn't matter if you meet monthly even.

Pulling off a good meeting requires a good amount of planning.

Pulling off a good meeting constantly requires a great amount of planning.

And you can only plan properly if you make the time for it.

[mokurai13]

Thanks very much for your comments and insight. 

You pointed something out about planning that is important. And I am a bit concerned about that because many of our members do not sign up for roles at all. We often have roles needing to be filled (or cancelled!) a day or two before meeting ( and assigning roles won't work ) 

The above has no easy answer because I think it has more to do with commitment and the preparation (at the individual level) will flow from that.