The Queens Hotel, Leeds, has started the search for Yorkshire’s most dedicated and outstanding personal assistants as part of its Queens Yorkshire PA of the Year Awards 2011.
PAs are often the company’s unsung hero. They run tirelessly around after your office colleagues organising the diary, booking the meeting room, stocking the stationery cupboard, making sure that the boss is in check. The Queens Yorkshire PA of the Year Awards is their opportunity to shine and be recognised for all the good things that they do for your office. All nominees and all things PA will be celebrated at a glittering awards ceremony to take place at The Queens in Leeds on Thursday 10th February 2011, from 7.30pm.
The Queens Hotel, which is part of award-winning hotel group QHotels, has designed the awards to recognise the commitment and hard work of PAs in organisations of all sizes who work their socks off to help keep the wheels of business in motion.
Commenting on the Awards, David Kanarens, General Manager at The Queens said: “PAs are worth their weight in gold and are often the unsung heroes in a company, so we wanted to acknowledge and honour them by way of our awards.
“Anyone can nominate a PA they think is worthy of an award and we’re confident that we’ll get inundated with nominations from companies and organisations throughout Yorkshire who want to give them special recognition. There are six awards up for grabs, including the lifetime achievement award, the above and beyond award and the coveted PA of the Year.
“When choosing our PA of the Year, our judges, who include Marketing Leeds Chief Executive Deborah Green, will be looking for that person who goes the extra mile and consistently shows initiative and adaptability. We want to find these extra special PAs – those who have a genuine black belt in Kung Fu organisation, whose businesses would be completely lost without them and their skills.
“PAs can even nominate themselves. The key to our awards is recognising the hard work and commitment of PAs who hold such an important but often unacknowledged role in the business.”
A shortlist of nominees will be announced in December, the shortlisted PA of the Year entries will be interviewed at a further stage to be held at the exclusive QClub executive floor at The Queens.
The winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at The Queens, Leeds, on Thursday 10 February 2011.
As well as the coveted title, The QHotels’ PA of the Year 2011 winner will receive a range of prizes.
Entries can be made online at www.qconferences.co.uk/paoftheyear and should be received no later than 31st December 2010.
