50 awesome ideas for table topics: Challenge members, attract guests and have fantastic meetings

Are members of your Toastmasters club not challenge enough? Do guests ever come in to meetings and then leave without ever thinking about joining? Are your meetings lacklustre?

I've been a Toastmaster for 8+ years and 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 out of their comfort zone.

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 so 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.