Every great recipe combines just the right ingredients…
Not too much, not too little. Mixed to perfection. Resulting in something delicious and nutritious. When you get it right you just know it. We all have our favorites. We share them. We count on them time after time. They don’t let us down. If everything we did could be so reliable.
Great nutrition communicators are created, not born.
Semester after semester in my nutrition communications course at Purdue, students would start the class with fear and dread. Gaining confidence was their number one goal. Few described themselves as communicators at the start of a semester. But that changed...
Year in and year out, students not only ended the semester with greater confidence, they took that confidence with them into internships, graduate school, and the workplace. They proudly wrote back sharing their successes as nutrition communicators:
“I wanted to thank you for how much your class has done for me. My thesis advisor told me she has never seen a student seem so prepared and at ease in front of a crowd.” Kristin Redfearn, during her MS internship program at Rush University in Chicago.
The Registered Dietitian Nutritionist is the Nutrition Expert… but without effective communication skills, the RDN’s expertise will have little impact. As RDNs, we want to make a difference.
What combination of ingredients – knowledge, skills, strategies, creativity, perspective, practical experiences, and more – can create a confident and effective nutrition communicator?
Where can you get the ingredients you are missing to be the nutrition communicator you desire to be?
NutritionCommunicator.com exists to help RDNs become great communicators.
NutritionCommunicator.com is here to be your source for nutrition communication content, resources, and coaching – to help RDNs become confident and effective nutrition communicators.
This site provides the tools needed to master the art and science of creating and communicating compelling, audience-centered, evidence-based messages that inspire optimal nutrition and health.
What do YOU need to become a more effective and confident nutrition communicator?
Whatever your needs, we are here to help. This site provides:
Resources, both free and for purchase, provide you with expert knowledge and skill-building tools.
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"No one starts out a communications expert: You get there by stepping into the ring and keeping at it,
integrating the tools of the trade and building your skills along the way."
~ Ellie Krieger, MS, RDN Award-winning cookbook author, columnists, and television personality Foreword, Communicating Nutrition: The Authoritative Guide
