by Jeff Ream | May 24, 2019 | Featured
…will pay more for it. The winery will then sell the excess off as another label or to another company to bottle it under their label (as TJ’s does). You may say that you actually LIKE the cheaper wine (if you’ve ever been to a blind wine tasting – you know how that usually goes), but from a marketing and branding perspective – if there are a few TJ’s selling a $50 label for $15 – it diminishes not only the demand, but makes you question why we ar…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 17, 2015 | Featured, Presentation, tips
…speaker is not defined by these pros and cons or good and bad skills. Our identity is in what we speak about – our skill in delivering that identity that will come with time and practice. “What we say is important… for in most cases the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” “A good speech should be like a woman’s skirt; long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest.” You can use all the time ahead of your presentation to…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 12, 2012 | counseling, follow up, interview, portfolio, pro-d, professional development, support
…abel developer to integrate the background from my portfolio onto the disc label. I printed address labels with the title of the disc and my contact info to put on the jacket. I am pretty happy with the turn out. 3. Letters of Recommendation: I included the standard three letters in all of the packets so they could reference them if needed or see further evidence that supports my candidacy. 4. My Notepad: I always bring my schnazzy note pad to tak…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 25, 2025 | Featured
…nient—it’s professionally essential. Why This Matters for Our Professional Identity Our field demands credibility built on current, reliable information. When we recommend interventions, discuss research with colleagues, or guide families through complex decisions, we’re staking our (yours and mine) professional reputation on the accuracy of our knowledge. Perplexity transforms us from information gatherers hoping our knowledge is current to infor…
by Jeff Ream | May 17, 2014 | Featured
…the tool is how action oriented it is. You can create categories and then label them as “decision” “action” “info” etc. This lets people reviewing minutes later have a much more streamlined approach to find out what needs to happen. From that, you can also assign specific people to tasks and give them a deadline all within the same line. At the end of the meeting, if you have added all members names and email addresses to the meeting, all you nee…
by Jeff Ream | Jul 3, 2020
…or incorporate any or all Items or any part thereof into a logo, corporate identity, trademark or brand; You shall not use any or all Items in any manner that infringes intellectual property rights of any party, or in any way subject Us to any unfavourable actions by any party or regulatory actions; You shall not use any or all Items to generate, create, produce or howsoever associated such Items to defamatory, offensive, harmful or abusive materi…
by Jeff Ream | May 29, 2017 | Featured, counseling, Networking, school counselor, social networking, support, tips
…t Adler, Gestalt and CBT and more tools we can use and base our counseling identity in. However, to be perfectly honest – I hardly ever find myself thinking “let’s try CBT with this student” in my school based setting. If you also act as a mental health counselor – you may have more opportunity, but for me in my role – it just doesn’t come up that much. These foundations are important to learn about but I think the more realistic approach is the d…
by Jeff Ream | Jan 2, 2016 | #scchat, Counseling Tech, counseling technology series, Featured, free, Marketing, social networking, technology, tips, tools
…media – they hear of the latest data breach at Target or that their aunt’s identity got stolen and all of a sudden they go all Doomsday Prepper on us. They don’t want to put their name online (but they write their passwords on an insecure note in their purse) and really don’t want to try anything new. For example, my parents (sorry mom and dad). Each time I am home I go through the motions of updating their laptops, solving this tech issue or show…
by Jeff Ream | Jun 7, 2012 | 21st century skills, free, geek, identity theft, jeffrey ream, LastPass, school counselor, security, technology, thecounselinggeek, tips, tutorial, warnings
…art and needed in this day, when it seems everyone is trying to steal your identity. However, some folks are uninformed about the importance of not only password protection, but strong password protection (if your password is ‘password’ or ‘123456789’ — I am talking to you!). Why you ask? Because typically when the hacker tries to access your info – they are typically doing so by something called a “brute force attack”, which actually is a pretty…
