Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Maximize your conference experience
Do you attend professional conferences? If you are a credentialled food and nutrition professional, do you attend FNCE? …otherwise known...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 30, 20193 min read
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...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 2, 20193 min read
How do you describe professionalism?
Were you ever instructed on how to be a “professional”? In our nutrition communications course at Purdue, I included a class period on...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
May 3, 20194 min read
Why should we recognize others?
In today’s throw-away world, I venture that some of the items we treasure most are notes of appreciation or praise, certificates for a...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Nov 9, 20183 min read
Don’t fear feedback – embrace it!
Have you ever stuck your neck out to apply for a highly sought-after position, or to participate in an event such as speaking at a...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Oct 26, 20183 min read
Maximize the impact of your conference experience
The conference is over, your suitcase is waiting to be unpacked, hundreds of emails need to be read or deleted, piles of “real” mail need...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Oct 19, 20182 min read
4 ways to excel at traveling
Do you dread traveling… or dream about it? Travel can be more rewarding and less stressful if you are intentional about just a few...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Oct 5, 20183 min read
Countdown to a convention
Who’s going to FNCE? That’s short for Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo – the annual meeting of the Academy of Nutrition and...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jul 20, 20182 min read
Becoming a better writer in 5 steps
Writing is functional and educational as well as artistic and expressive. Writing well requires both quality content and creativity to...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jul 6, 20182 min read
4 lessons from a year of blogging
This is my 52nd blog post since launching NutritionCommunicator.com last July. Yay! I met my goal of creating and posting a weekly blog....
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
May 4, 20184 min read
Who are your heroes?
I was honored this week with induction into the Purdue University Nutrition Science Hall of Fame. This is the department where I studied...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 20, 20182 min read
Are you fully present?
How many things are you doing right now? Are you reading this blog while having lunch, checking emails, replying to a text, fixing a...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Feb 16, 20183 min read
What is the quickest way to improve customer service?
You walk into an office, a hotel, a restaurant, a store. What needs to happen for you to have a marvelous customer experience? I contend...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jan 5, 20182 min read
What does the future hold?
What does the year ahead hold in store? We cannot look into a crystal ball, but we can determine what we would like our future to be and...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Dec 1, 20172 min read
What does it take to be a successful communicator?
Successful nutrition communicators possess more than the required knowledge and skills. Successful communicators demonstrate specific...
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