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What creates effective communication? Be professional… always.
What creates effective communication? This series of posts shares 8 key principles. Here are the first seven: Communication is relational...
Barbara J. Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 25, 20233 min read
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What creates effective communication? Plan for success and prevent failure.
What creates effective communication? This series of posts shares 8 key principles. Thus far, we have covered these six: Communication is...
Barbara J. Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 18, 20233 min read
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What creates effective communication? Engage the audience in a variety of ways.
What creates effective communication? I propose 8 principles are involved. So far, we have covered three: Communication is relational ....
Barbara J. Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jul 28, 20234 min read
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What is feedforward? Does it produce better results than feedback?
Would you rather receive feedback or feedforward? Since feedback is universally dreaded and feared, you would likely choose feedforward...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
May 12, 20233 min read
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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Create and communicate clear expectations.
When we are overwhelmed, where does the fault lie? With ourselves or others? If we are honest, we must admit our role in taking on more...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 28, 20234 min read
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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Break tasks down and build boundaries.
Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you experience these feelings more often than you would like? When we experience overwhelm, it can lead...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 21, 20233 min read
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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Ask for and accept help to overcome.
What does it mean to you to feel overwhelmed? Like a juggler who can’t keep all your props in the air? Like you’re drowning? Or buried?...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 14, 20233 min read
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Need help to narrow your topic? Answer 5 crucial questions.
How do you decide what to communicate when there’s so much to say? Doesn’t our audience deserve the benefit of all we know about the...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Mar 17, 20233 min read
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Why we need to take a break...vacations are full of valuable lessons.
What do you consider a vacation – relaxing on the beach, camping in the woods, climbing in the mountains, sightseeing in a city, a...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Mar 3, 20233 min read
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Creating habits to succeed at your goals? Keep things fresh.
Habits are successful because… well, because they are habits. We do them with little thought and minimal effort. However, a habit may...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Feb 17, 20233 min read
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Creating habits to achieve your goals? Gain clarity on your why.
Achieving goals and creating habits can be hard! To make the process more successful and permanent, we’ve explored the importance of:...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Feb 10, 20232 min read
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Creating habits to succeed at your goals? Believe you are capable.
When you fail to achieve a goal or establish a habit, what barriers are most likely preventing your forward progress? Who or what is...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Feb 3, 20233 min read
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Want to achieve your goals? Replace or reduce negative habits.
Habits are automatic behaviors, actions we take without conscious thought. To change a habit requires the opposite – conscious thought...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jan 27, 20233 min read
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Creating habits to meet your goals? Make them easy and convenient.
If you visit a new website, do you appreciate it being user-friendly and easy to navigate? If you are searching for a new recipe, do you...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jan 20, 20233 min read
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Want to create habits to achieve your goals? Make an action plan.
What have you wished for that hasn’t come to fruition? Stop and think – did you have a plan in place to make that wish a reality? Likely...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jan 13, 20233 min read
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Want to create habits to achieve your goals? Do first things first.
When do you most often set goals? At New Year’s when making resolutions is considered the thing to do? In fact, if you don’t set goals at...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jan 6, 20233 min read
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Want to achieve your goals? Reflect first, then take action.
Do you set New Year’s resolutions? If so, you’re not alone. Research indicates that more than 40% of Americans set resolutions at this...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Dec 30, 20222 min read
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Are you a single or multi-tasker? Which gets more done, better?
We may be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but can we effectively and accurately complete more complex tasks or projects while...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Dec 2, 20224 min read
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Preparing a speaker introduction? Here are 5 ways to make it remarkable!
Do you remember the first time you were asked to introduce a speaker? Maybe you were handed a 10-page resume listing hundreds of...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Oct 21, 20224 min read
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Do I need an elevator pitch? What makes one engaging and effective?
Have you ever been asked “Tell me about yourself” or “What do you do?”? Are you prepared with a succinct response clearly conveying the...
Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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