There are times when even the most experienced lecturers get stuck, forget their line of thought, are unable to convey an important concept, or simply may start to lose their voice and get tired. Should these situations occur too often, the lecture becomes useless and the audience's view of the lecturer becomes very negative. For this reason, it is often useful to be aware of certain tricks as well as tools for audience regeneration.

In this chapter, we will go over a subset of these tricks/tools including confronting mistakes, lecture polls and surveys, non-defensive lecturing, as well as breaks, jokes, and other fun distractions. Used effectively by a novice lecturer, these tools and tricks can make the difference between a good lecture and a disaster. However, if these tools and tricks are used effectively by an experienced lecturer, they can make the lecture an unforgettable experience for the audience.

Effectively, in this chapter we assume that all that could be done regarding the lecture quality metric has been done. However, the lecturer quality and the audience quality metrics can be energized and increased by certain methods that will be explained in the following sections.