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It’s just a typo
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 22, 2019
  • 3 min

It’s just a typo

You pull up in front of a school and the sign out front advertises an upcoming event as follows: Leteracy Night Dec 8th at 5:00 Would yo...
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Are you ready when the media calls?
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 15, 2019
  • 2 min

Are you ready when the media calls?

Imagine sitting in your office concentrating on completing your latest project when the phone rings. It is the producer for your local te...
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Do I need a mentor or a coach?
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 8, 2019
  • 3 min

Do I need a mentor or a coach?

What is a mentor? Is it the same as a coach? Or, is it something different? The words mentor and coach are often used interchangeably. Mo...
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Season to Taste
Barb Mayfield
  • Nov 1, 2019
  • 3 min

Season to Taste

How often do you see the phrase “season to taste” in a recipe? That phrase will forever have a deeper meaning after experiencing the Mone...
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Finding Common Ground for Nutrition amidst a Culture of Controversy
Guest post by Rachel Baer, MS, RDN, LD
  • Oct 25, 2019
  • 4 min

Finding Common Ground for Nutrition amidst a Culture of Controversy

Would you agree we live in an increasingly polarized culture? Specifically, in the field of nutrition, polarization and controversy are c...
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Maximize your conference experience
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 18, 2019
  • 4 min

Maximize your conference experience

Are you going to FNCE? …otherwise known as the Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo – the annual meeting of the Academy of Nutrition an...
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5 Tips for Reaching and Teaching Adults
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 11, 2019
  • 2 min

5 Tips for Reaching and Teaching Adults

If you want to learn something, what do you do? Do you… Look it up online? Watch a YouTube video? Go to the library and check out a book?...
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Who is your “arch-nemesis”?
Barb Mayfield
  • Oct 4, 2019
  • 2 min

Who is your “arch-nemesis”?

Miscommunication is the failure to communicate adequately. It occurs in a multitude of ways, including communication that is confusing, u...
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Take the next step!
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 27, 2019
  • 2 min

Take the next step!

When you are facing a big project or task, are you more inclined to get started right away, or put it off? If you are in the 20% of the p...
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Eating Together is Easy
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 20, 2019
  • 3 min

Eating Together is Easy

Who needs something else to complicate their lives? No one. Who needs something else to enrich their lives? Everyone. That “something” ca...
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May I have your attention?
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 13, 2019
  • 5 min

May I have your attention?

Do you consider yourself a good multi-tasker? How many things can you juggle successfully at the same time without dropping one or more? ...
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Know Thy Audience
Barb Mayfield
  • Sep 6, 2019
  • 3 min

Know Thy Audience

Have you ever been in an audience and got the feeling the speaker was in the wrong room? You felt like they had no clue who was sitting i...
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What is your “14er”? Part 2
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 30, 2019
  • 3 min

What is your “14er”? Part 2

After work today, our oldest son, Joey, along with seven other adventurers (at last count), are driving more than 20 hours from Indiana t...
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Miss Perception - What does it mean?
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 23, 2019
  • 3 min

Miss Perception - What does it mean?

Meet Miss Perception, also known as “did I hear or read that correctly?” Miss Perception is another contestant in my “Mis-Communication” ...
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The Power of Story in Live Video
Guest post by Katie Hake, RDN, LD
  • Aug 16, 2019
  • 2 min

The Power of Story in Live Video

Think back to the last product you purchased. For me, it was a new planner from someone on social media. Did I truly need another fancy p...
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What makes a message compelling?
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 9, 2019
  • 3 min

What makes a message compelling?

What does it take to be compelling? To compel means to bring about something forcefully, but to be compelling has a much more desirable c...
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How do you describe professionalism?
Barb Mayfield
  • Aug 2, 2019
  • 3 min

How do you describe professionalism?

Were you ever instructed in how to be a “professional”? In our nutrition communications course at Purdue I included a class period on thi...
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Confessions of an Instagram Newbie
Barb Mayfield
  • Jul 26, 2019
  • 4 min

Confessions of an Instagram Newbie

They say you can’t teach an old dog a new trick. I disagree. There are numerous stories of older people learning and achieving great thin...
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What makes a message memorable?
Barb Mayfield
  • Jul 19, 2019
  • 3 min

What makes a message memorable?

As communicators, we won’t be effective if an audience can’t remember our message. Being memorable is essential to successful communicati...
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Helping others is a win-win
Barb Mayfield
  • Jul 12, 2019
  • 3 min

Helping others is a win-win

Looking for a proven method for self-improvement? Here it is: Engage in helping others improve by sharing your knowledge, wisdom, and exp...
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