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What can the Titanic teach us?
Barb Mayfield
  • 4 days ago
  • 5 min

What can the Titanic teach us?

Crises are events and situations that turn our lives upside down. They include natural disasters, health scares, economic upheavals,...
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What does it take to influence or persuade?
Barb Mayfield
  • Apr 9
  • 2 min

What does it take to influence or persuade?

The term “influencer” refers to someone, generally via social media, with a large following and able to successfully exert influence over...
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5 Keys to Communicating Nutrition
Barb Mayfield
  • Mar 26
  • 2 min

5 Keys to Communicating Nutrition

When describing your communication skills, which adjective would you prefer: Average? Mediocre? Adequate? Or Awesome? It’s time for...
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5 tips to prepare for questions
Barb Mayfield
  • Mar 19
  • 3 min

5 tips to prepare for questions

Does the Q&A portion of a presentation fill you with dread? It doesn’t have to. This tip series provides 5 tips for mastering the Q&A.
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Can we talk?
Barb Mayfield
  • Feb 26
  • 3 min

Can we talk?

Can you recall your last heart-to-heart conversation? In today’s world of instant messaging, texting, email, and social media, have we...
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Communicate love with your presence
Barb Mayfield
  • Feb 12
  • 3 min

Communicate love with your presence

In keeping with our month-long focus on building our relational communication skills, we are revisiting a skill that is becoming more and...
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The art of listening
Barb Mayfield
  • Feb 5
  • 5 min

The art of listening

The month of February is the time each calendar year that we celebrate love with cards, flowers, and boxes of chocolates. During this...
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New Beginnings
Barb Mayfield
  • Jan 8
  • 2 min

New Beginnings

Fresh snow transforms a winter landscape. It covers the mud and muck and blankets the world with a clean and pristine newness. It makes...
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May I have your attention?
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 20, 2020
  • 2 min

May I have your attention?

Have you ever been in an audience where no one is paying attention? How would you like to be the presenter in that situation? When an...
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Take your journey with purpose and a plan
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 13, 2020
  • 2 min

Take your journey with purpose and a plan

Have you ever felt like your journey as a nutrition professional meandered aimlessly rather than purposefully? Would you like to take...
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Improvement starts with assessment
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 6, 2020
  • 2 min

Improvement starts with assessment

What is the first step in building a skill, making a change, or achieving any type of self-improvement? Assessment - An honest and...
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What do experts need most?
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 30, 2020
  • 3 min

What do experts need most?

Registered Dietitian Nutritionists are the food and nutrition experts, and RDNs who communicate well change lives. Without communication...
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No time or resources? No problem!
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 23, 2020
  • 3 min

No time or resources? No problem!

A lack of time, money, or resources does not need to prevent creating great communication. Follow these five effective shortcuts.
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Food Connects Us
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 16, 2020
  • 3 min

Food Connects Us

Around the world, eating together is celebrated. Here are 5 tips for promoting shared meals in celebration of World Food Day.
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Ask the experts… your audience!
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 9, 2020
  • 3 min

Ask the experts… your audience!

Working with the audience to design communication takes the guesswork out of content creation.
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Questions lead to greater understanding
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 4, 2020
  • 4 min

Questions lead to greater understanding

Questions are powerful. They reveal what needs to be clarified or brought to light. Questions lead to understanding. Don't fear the Q&A.
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The art of listening
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 21, 2020
  • 5 min

The art of listening

Learn 5 essential qualities of listening an effective communicator will demonstrate. First one? Paying attention.
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It takes a team
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 14, 2020
  • 3 min

It takes a team

The team of authors, reviewers, editors, and designers completed four years of work and now Communicating Nutrition is a published book!!
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Account for Culture in Communication
Barb Mayfield
  • Jul 31, 2020
  • 3 min

Account for Culture in Communication

Effective communication accounts for culture – get 5 tips for creating culturally-focused communication.
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Are you creating video?
Barb Mayfield
  • Jun 26, 2020
  • 3 min

Are you creating video?

Video is the preferred way to consume content online. Creating high-impact video is easier than ever with these 5 tips.
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