Awesome table topic ideas

Are members of your Toastmasters club not challenged enough? Do members ever leave your meetings smiling and laughing? Do guests ever come in to meetings and then leave without ever thinking about joining? Are your meetings lacklustre or boring? Are you having problems retaining valued members of your club?

I've been a Toastmaster for 10+ years and in my experience, the one thing that has really helped with all of the problems above has been having a solid table topics session. In this book, I have compiled 50 of the best ideas for table topics that will challenge you, entertain you and get members and guests out of their comfort zone. You will learn things that you never learned before from members, helping with networking. You will learn interesting things about guests that will help you engage and connect with them in different ways. Most importantly, you will learn things about yourself!

Each topic idea comes with a short description, details on the preparation that is needed beforehand, the logistics of how the table topics will work (if different from the normal Q&A procedure), what the audience needs to know, sample prompts and lastly, why the table topic idea is AWESOME.

The next time you are a table topics master, read an idea (or two) from this book, combine different ideas together or use the ideas and put your own twist on them. You will have fun being table topics master, your members will be challenged and entertained as they try to come up with impromptu speeches and guests will be pleasantly surprised at how fun your club is.

A side benefit I've noticed from having great table topics: when guests join, they will think that having awesome table topics is the norm and as a result, will raise your club standards and consequently, the quality of your meetings.