Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
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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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 19, 20193 min read
5 ways to connect with your audiences
Are you looking to build an audience – not just a larger audience, but an engaged audience? An audience that hangs on every word and...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Nov 2, 20183 min read
Command your audience
Have you ever attended a presentation in which the audience was NOT engaged and became disruptive, or at best, was simply not paying...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Jun 1, 20183 min read
Adults are not oversized children
I know, there are exceptions. Some adults never really grow up. But, let’s not go there. A common admonition for teaching children is...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
May 11, 20183 min read
Can you answer that?
The Q&A can be one of the most dreaded parts of a presentation. Why? Because we fear we might not know how to respond to a difficult...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Apr 13, 20182 min read
Hello, my name is…
I love name tags! I try hard to learn people’s names, but using name tags is a tremendous help. Find out what a person wants to be called...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Mar 2, 20182 min read
5 ways to stand out from the crowd
Did you know that the average consumer is exposed to as many as 10,000 brand messages each and every day? That’s what the American...
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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
Dec 15, 20172 min read
Do you accept or reject?
When someone poses an idea, what is your reaction? To accept and add to it, or to knock it down? When we block the ideas of others we...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Dec 8, 20173 min read
How Improv Connects Audiences
What does “connection” with an audience mean to you? That they aren’t asleep or playing video games on their phone? True connection...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Nov 17, 20172 min read
Let’s get engaged!
Getting engaged is exciting, it’s memorable, and it’s planned. Audience engagement in a presentation can also be exciting and memorable,...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 18, 20172 min read
And the award goes to...
This week at my local Toastmasters meeting I stepped way outside my comfort zone… I gave my first ever humorous speech. I shared the...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 11, 20172 min read
Sew many virgins of Miss Communication
Let’s meet 10 of them: Starting with Miss Understanding, when what you said and what I thought you said are NOT the same. Much like the...
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Barbara Mayfield, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Aug 4, 20173 min read
What defines Successful Communication?
Successful communication creates a sharing of ideas and feelings between the communicator and the audience. It results in an audience...
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