Manchester for eight years. Stephanie took the award for Best Organised Event for the Insurance Institute of Manchester’s annual dinner. The dinner, which is for 750 people, is as Stephanie puts it “quite old fashioned” but very well respected. “The job of organising this din- ner was daunting due to its size, but like most PAs I rise to the challenge,” she says. Not only did Stephanie rise to the challenge of organ- ising it for the first time she took it upon herself to mod- ernise the whole affair, creating a new dinner menu from scratch, designing all of the stationery herself, creating networking booklets for each table and hiring magicians. Not only was the event a success, but she managed to increase profits on last year by 25 per cent. She is now in the throes of organising next year’s event for which all 760 tickets have already been sold. Stephanie is a worthy winner indeed but even so felt very humbled when her name was called out at our awards dinner. “To win on the night was a fantastic feeling. I had no expectations of winning so when they called my name out I was totally
shocked and thrilled. I feel like a star and have received lots of flowers and congratulations. If you put the effort and passion into something it will create something great.” Stephanie will soon be enjoying the thrills and spills of a weekend break for two at Alton Towers. Runners-up for the award for Best Organised Event
were Sarah Lambert from Systagenix Wound Management and Lindsay Hopcroft from Sheffield University. The award was presented by Customer Service Manager, Kat Blatchford of insurance company, Event Insurance Services, sponsor of the award category.
Employer of the Year Next up was Employer of the Year. This award goes to the company that has demonstrated that it places a true value on its administrative staff and this year the win- ner was Hays Plc –and Executive Assistant to the group HR director, Victoria Darragh picked up the award on the company’s behalf. Victoria was the PA who has been behind many of the company’s PA initiatives and heads
www.executivepa.com » Oct/Nov 2010 » 13
Page 1 |
Page 2 |
Page 3 |
Page 4 |
Page 5 |
Page 6 |
Page 7 |
Page 8 |
Page 9 |
Page 10 |
Page 11 |
Page 12 |
Page 13 |
Page 14 |
Page 15 |
Page 16 |
Page 17 |
Page 18 |
Page 19 |
Page 20 |
Page 21 |
Page 22 |
Page 23 |
Page 24 |
Page 25 |
Page 26 |
Page 27 |
Page 28 |
Page 29 |
Page 30 |
Page 31 |
Page 32 |
Page 33 |
Page 34 |
Page 35 |
Page 36 |
Page 37 |
Page 38 |
Page 39 |
Page 40 |
Page 41 |
Page 42 |
Page 43 |
Page 44 |
Page 45 |
Page 46 |
Page 47 |
Page 48