Comments on: Sir Alan Sugar’s The Apprentice features a visit to The Energy Clinic: do Sugar and the BBC really believe in this stuff? http://holfordwatch.info/2008/05/15/sir-alan-sugars-the-apprentice-features-a-visit-to-the-energy-clinic/ The truth about Patrick Holford, media nutritionist Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Claire http://holfordwatch.info/2008/05/15/sir-alan-sugars-the-apprentice-features-a-visit-to-the-energy-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-9702 Fri, 16 May 2008 12:45:27 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-9702 I have to say I’m not actually very suprised – the work performance coaching/management consultancy/conference hosting world is awash with all kinds of evidence-light hype. E.g. this recent exhibition aimed at executive secretaries & PAs – http://www.thetimescreme.co.uk/files/seminar_page.pdf . Some of the seminars listed are fairly common sensical, but others are by organisations offering things like NLP. Not that there isn’t sometimes a core of common sense to those too, but a lot of BS also, in my experience.

I help organise training for our small, hi-tech company. Training given by people who know our area of technology and the markets we’re working in has been, in my experience, valuable. Not so for generic, business coaching type training.

Many business training & conference venues are located in spa hotels and the like

]]> By: jonhw http://holfordwatch.info/2008/05/15/sir-alan-sugars-the-apprentice-features-a-visit-to-the-energy-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-9700 Thu, 15 May 2008 22:42:57 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-9700 And the Apprentice has given a plug to one business or another most weeks. Which I don’t really mind if it’s a hotel or something…but this is rather different…

Of course, complaining to the BBC couldn’t hurt. Unless it’s written in green ink ;)

]]> By: dvnutrix http://holfordwatch.info/2008/05/15/sir-alan-sugars-the-apprentice-features-a-visit-to-the-energy-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-9698 Thu, 15 May 2008 19:18:38 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-9698 The BBC has used the Energy Clinic as a venue for its own events…

]]> By: gimpy http://holfordwatch.info/2008/05/15/sir-alan-sugars-the-apprentice-features-a-visit-to-the-energy-clinic/comment-page-1/#comment-9696 Thu, 15 May 2008 17:56:32 +0000 http://holfordwatch.wordpress.com/?p=440#comment-9696 Have you asked the BBC about this? Isn’t against their rules to give a commercial plug to private companies?

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