Authority Principle Course Curriculum

Course curriculum

36 video micro-lessons in 6 modules, about 4 hours in total.

Each lesson runs 6–8 minutes.

Micro-lessons are the absolute best way to learn. No long, boring lessons you don’t get to finish. The lessons in this course are only 5-8 min long. One concept per lesson. No fluff and unneeded filling. Take a lesson and use it immediately.

Take a lesson with your morning coffee, in a break, or in commute.

This is a course that gets finished.

6 modules 36 micro-lessons About 4 hours 6–8 minutes each
01

What Authority Is

Authority is the standing people give you freely, and it rests on more than being right. You learn what people check before they follow someone, what only looks like Authority, and how it's given and withdrawn.

  1. Someone You'd Follow Anywhere
  2. What People Check Before They Follow
  3. Four Things That Look Like Authority
  4. Mandate Isn't Enough
  5. Authority Is Always Specific
  6. Given, Kept, Withdrawn
02

Worth Following

Knowing your craft and keeping your word. You learn how honest limits, small promises and owning your mistakes build a standing that belongs to you, not to your title or your employer.

  1. Knowing Your Craft
  2. The Edge of What You Know
  3. When Your Words and Actions Match
  4. Keeping Small Promises
  5. Owning a Mistake
  6. Borrowed Shine
03

Steady and Clear

Staying steady without needing approval and holding a line. You learn to say no well, keep your standard when others drop theirs, and take on only what you can deliver.

  1. Not Needing Them to Like You
  2. Calm When It Counts
  3. Saying No Well
  4. Holding Your Standard When Others Don't
  5. Only Taking On What You Can Deliver
  6. The Performance Trap
04

On Their Side

Real Authority makes the people around you better at what they do. You learn to share what you know, correct people without shrinking them, and earn standing with clients, without a title, and as the new person.

  1. People Grow Around You
  2. Sharing What You Know
  3. Correcting Without Shrinking People
  4. Authority With Clients, Patients and Customers
  5. Authority Without a Title
  6. Arriving as the New Person
05

Other People's Authority

For much of your working life, you're the one deciding whom to follow. You learn whom to trust, how to work under weak authority, how to disagree upward, and how to say the no you have to say.

  1. Whom to Trust
  2. Working Under Weak Authority
  3. Disagreeing Upward
  4. Why Rooms Go Quiet
  5. Who Gets Heard
  6. The No You Have to Say
06

Authority Across Your Working Life

Authority among equals, the first time you lead, and your reputation beyond your own workplace. You learn how to rebuild Authority you've lost, when someone's Authority should end, and how yours grows over a career.

  1. Authority Among Equals
  2. Your First Time Leading
  3. Authority in Public and Online
  4. Rebuilding Authority You've Lost
  5. When Someone's Authority Should End
  6. Authority That Grows With You
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