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Quick Tips for Mastering Table Topics

Published:  2/28/02
  
  • Be enthusiastic, inspiring and imaginative! 

  • Review the agenda.  This will determine how many participants you will call and help you choose members who do not have a specific duty.

  • Match your questions to a member’s experience; offer newer members more flexible questions.

  • Some clubs ask participants to come to the front of the room.  That walk provides members with the time to think about their question, as well as a chance to practice at the lectern.


 

Learning Points

  • “We learn best in moments of enjoyment.”    --Dr. Ralph C. Smedley, Founder, Toastmasters International.

  • When you’ve learned something, it is usually learned through humor.

  • Table topics are good for when you lose your place in a speech. 

  • Roll with the punches.


Caren M. Borowski, ATM-S