• Create topics that are short and answerable. Table Topics is designed to allow members to formulate a speech on-the-spot. Dont' make them so challenging that the person cannot produce comments.
  
  
• If your meeting has a theme of the day, construct your topics to stay within that theme.
  
  
• Customize your topics for each person. Provide easier questions to newer members and more challenging ones to seasoned members.
  
  
• Adopt a sequence for exactly who will be called on and when. For example, first call on club members with no duties, then membes with lesser duties (timer, ah counter, grammarian), then visiting Toastmasters, then guests. If time permits, then maybe call on the General Evaluator, Evaluators.
  
  
• Consider not offering Table Topics participation to scheduled speakers so that they can just concentrate on their speech material without being sidetracked.
  
  
• Try letting the Table Topics Master choose a word of the day instead of the Grammarian. This way, the Table Topics master can choose a word that can relate to the Table Topics that will be provided.
  
  
• Post the word of the day in large print on pieces of paper and hang them in place where each participant can easily them.
  
  
• Be creative with how Table Topics are presented to your club. If the Table Topics Master at the previous meeting read topics individually, have members "pick a number" or draw their topic from a hat or a bag. If members stood at their seats last week to deliver their topics, ask that each member come to the front of the room this week.

In Summary....

Remember that when you are the Table Topics Master, that you are facilitating an important portion of the meeting where the objective is for others to benefit. Use your time wisely. This is not the time for you to give lengthy introductions or to make a speech yourself. Be generous with your Table Topics session and put the time into creating questions that will inspire people to perform.