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Let Her Focus -Certify Your Center

Swimming is her life and gold is her dream. But to her coach, she is just another voiceless body. She used to focus on swimming and refining every sense to perfection - but that was before he touched her. Before her report fell on deaf ears. Before her nation celebrated her medals, and silenced her suffering. Now she numbs her senses with anti-depressants, wine, weed, - anything that will pass the drug tests. Her hope for gold is not gone. She just doesn't want to feel the journey. Why Lasso Safe? Athletes are: 60% more likely to experience depression 30% more likely to be victims of sexual abuse 50% more likely to develop eating disorders than non athletes. Congress has acknowledged these statistics…

Building Your Lasso Safe Team

One of the first steps in preparing for the Lasso Safe Certification process in a sport community is the formation of the Lasso Safe Safety Team. Integrated implementation is one of the most important safety strategies and a good safety team will become the key to an integrated, effective, value-creating and ultimately successful Lasso Safe Certified sport community. It is important to include as many of the Safety Team members as may be needed early in the process. This allows for a more seamless flow of information, policies and procedures, and allows for the valuable input of multiple experienced and knowledgeable stakeholders in the community from the onset. Every community will have a different team formation because every community will…

Introduction to Lasso Safe Certify

Setting the standard for safe sport communities, Lasso Safe has enacted the Lasso Safe Rating System and Certification, complemented by the Value Creation Plan. This system is innovative in its combined quantifying and incentivization approach to safe sport communities, as well as its inclusion of youth, amateur and professional sport communities. Under the Certification, private and organizational communitys are required to achieve safe community standards in the Lasso Safe Rating System, and maximize benefit through the Value Creation Plan. Over the last 10 years, the leaders of Lasso Safe have sought to make the communities in which we train, compete, work, dream and triumph safer, higher performance and less damaging to our sport culture. When Lasso Safe started there was…

Value Creation for Merger or Acquisition

Value Creation for Merger or Acquisition (M&A) Maximize M&A Value through Lasso Safe Synergies. If you asked sport communities to name their most valuable assets, they might note elements such as contracted teams and athletes, high performance staff, money, intellectual properties and patents, physical property and training or competition communitys, and even upper-level management. However, information is just as important to business operations, and communitys should always look to maximize these assets. Modern risk management has grown increasingly complex due to more scrutiny from the sport industry and shareholders. In many instances, communitys will suffer losses because information was not transparent to relevant decision makers and risk managers. In short, information adds yet another potential threat that communitys need to…

The Cost of Lasso Safe Certify – Part 1

COST - THE VALUE OF LASSO SAFE Lasso Safe is the most trusted safe sport community rating system in the world. Available for virtually all sport community types, Lasso Safe provides a framework for safe, healthy, highly respected, and cost-saving sport communities. Lasso Safe certification is a globally recognized symbol of athlete safety and high-performing leadership. Youth, amateur and Olympic athletes are training and competing in Lasso Safe-certified communitys around the world. Here's why. The Rating Systems and Value Creation Plan are periodically updated to ‘raise the bar’ as the industry’s ecosystem adapts or changes and as safety revenue challenges continue to grow. Communities who are Lasso Safe Certified are respected in the industry and earn the reputation of leading…

The Cost of Lasso Safe Certify – Part 2

Over the last 10 years, the leaders of Lasso Safe have sought to make the communities in which we train, compete, work, dream and triumph safer, higher performance and less damaging to our sport culture. And sport communities around the globe are engaging in this mission, finding benefit for their triple bottom line - people, sport and profit. In addition to seeing an increase in profit and receiving on-going, leadership support, here are some benefits safe communitys are reporting: INDUSTRY DEMAND The most advanced members in the sporting industry already expect standards that are found in the Lasso Safe system. Communities who aim to service the best are searching for ways to instill many of Lasso Safe’s attributes, and will…

Champion Center Spotlight

Champion athletes are not just measured by a single season or finish, but also by a long career of personal happiness and professional consistency. In a culture where athletes are 60% more likely to experience depression than non-athletes*, some sport communities throughout the world seem to have mastered the formula of cultivating a culture of true Champions. The benefits span well beyond quarterly ROI for the community to expanded athletic careers (56% longer for athletes training in top-rated safe communitys* *), and greater long-term profit for the community, the sponsors and the athletes. We like to award these leaders as the worlds' Champion Communities. This quarter we are taking a look at figure skating's legendary Cricket Club. CRICKET CLUB, TORONTO…