Informative Speech Topic Ideas

Informative speeches are those where the speaker aims to enlighten the audience about a topic. Unlike in persuasive speaking, here the goal is not to get the audience to share your perspective but to just expand their knowledge on a new topic or a new dimension of an existing one.

How to Write an Informative Speech?

Understand how much information you need to share

An informative speech seems like something that is easy to write given its only masses of information that one has to throw at their audience. Wrong.

Informative speeches are one of the toughest to write because there is an abundance of information out there and the speaker has to use his discretion to choose the information that he/she can use.

This judgment again like all other types of speeches is based on an analysis of the audience and the speaker’s own knowledge about the topic.

Thus, for an informative speech, one must ensure that they pick a topic they have adequate knowledge on or are passionate about to read up on.

Structure your speech

While writing, remember to not just randomly throw heavy chunks of information to the audience. Ensure that there is a certain flow (from the basic facts to advanced knowledge in the topic) and that you don’t make it too technical unless you are dealing with academics.

Add humour

If your speech is about a heavy subject you might want to make sure you use humour and other such attention-grabbers to ensure that you don’t lose your audience.

Leave places for fillers 

Since an informative speech can get a little heavy, to ensure that your audience is not distracted, add some fillers in between. This could be a joke or a small activity that will involve your audience or a live demonstration.

Ensure that you have a filler before you are to share the most important information since the filler will aid in getting back the audience’s attention.

How to Select a Topic?

The easiest way to select a topic is to ask your audience what they would like some information on! But then, this is not possible every time.

To select a topic for an informative speech, strive to understand and analyze the kind of topics that your audience would like and what would you like to research and speak upon.

Strive to then strike a middle ground, select your topic and give it your best!!

Informative Speech Topic Ideas

1. How NLP can help your organization
2. Social Media presence for a better outreach
3. The importance of color psychology in advertising
4. The importance of psychology of typography in advertising
5. The need for emotionally intelligent leaders
6. Why more transparency leads to greater employee satisfaction
7. Is WFH leading to greater productivity
8. Art therapy for greater productivity
9. Why mental health leave policy should be a thing
10. How longer weekends and shorter work hours lead to better productivity
11. Why paternity leave is the need of the hour
12. The need for a counsellor in offices
13. Why runover meetings decrease productivity
14. The importance of finding the right investors
15. How to hire right
16. Why grades and colleges shouldn’t be on the hiring criteria
17. Constructive criticism leads to better performance
18. Good listeners make great leaders
19. Why expressing gratitude is important
20. China’s Meteoric Rise As A Superpower
21. The Unspoken Potential Danger of E-Waste
22. The Immigration Crisis: Evolution of Immigration Policies Around the World
23. Game Changing Power of Nuclear Energy
24. China’s Meteoric Rise As A Superpower
25. The Unspoken Potential Danger of E-Waste
26. Women in Diplomacy: A Forgotten History
27. The Immigration Crisis: Evolution of Immigration Policies Around the World
28. Crises in the Middle East— Is There an End in Sight? 
29. Is the Very Concept of Citizenship Flawed?
30. The Complex Conflict of Water Cooperation
31. A GDP in Negative: What It Implies 
32. Why There Still Aren’t Enough Women in the Military 
33. Is Democracy the Best Form of Governance? 
34. Terrorism: Redefining a New World Order
35. The Jurisdiction of International Relations— Does it Include Space?
36. Wag the Dog: Fact or Fiction?

37. How Cryptocurrencies are Being Used by Citizens to Avoid Sanctions

38. Why is one of the world’s oldest living faiths on the verge of extinction? (Zoroastrian) 
39. The Cuban Missile Crisis: The closest the world ever-reached to a nuclear war 
40. Hitler: The Mastermind of the Art of Persuasion 
41. From Slow Fashion to Fast Fashion: History’s unlikely turn for the worst-case environmental scenario 
42. The Peculiar History of Pizza 
43. The Not-So-French Origin of French Fries 
44. History’s Real Crime-Drama Event: How Fidel Castro managed to survive around 600 assassination attempts? 
45. The Journey of Netflix: From Movie Rental Service to The Most Popular OTT Platform 
46. War on One of our Beloved Pets: The Ferocious Battle Between Pope Gregory IV and Cats 
47. History of Sky Burials and The Science Behind It 
48. The healthiest food cuisine in the world (Japanese) 
49. History of Sedentary Lifestyle among humans 
50. Egyptians and the origin of toothpaste 
51. Reminders of injustices against women due to stigma around menstruation: Retracing Cultural History across the world 
52. History of World’s first empire: The most harmless one