THE AUTHENTIC AUTHORITY FOR MANAGERS
Become the manager your team is happy to follow
Your title makes your team comply. This 8-week Online course shows you how
to earn the Authority that makes them follow you
Does this sound familiar?
- People agree with you in the meeting, then do something else afterwards.
- You were promoted, but your old colleagues test you to see if you are capable.
- A more senior manager goes behind your back and begins giving your people instructions.
- Your best performer breaks the standard, and you let it pass because you need them.
- You explain every decision twice, but it still doesn't really land.
WHAT WE MEAN BY AUTHORITY
Your job-title gives you the formal right and power to decide. Authority is what makes people want to act on your decisions – no matter your title.
Authority is the standing people freely give someone whose knowledge, character and care hold up under pressure.
With it, your team will tell you the truth, raise problems early and do good work when you’re not in the room. Authority is not about rank, charisma or control. It is based on things your team checks every week: do you know your work, do you always keep your word, and are you on their side no matter what.
WHAT MOST AUTHORITY TRAINING DOES WRONG
Most training treats Authority as a performance. They tell you to speak slower, lower your voice, take up space, command the room.
That is dominance and manipulation.
All that might work until you come under real pressure. It could be a tough problem in your organization, a mistake you commit, or a team that pushes back on your decisions.
Then the act falls apart, and you end up over-explaining, defending yourself or quietly backing off. There was nothing underneath it.
We teach the part underneath. It’s built from what you know, what you do and how you treat people, and it holds when the pressure comes.
Authority can’t be faked. It has to be built.
Where does your Authority stand today?
The Manager’s Authority Check will give you an honest authority evaluation in about seven minutes. It looks at how you handle the moments that test a manager, and at what your team, your own manager and your peers have done lately. You’ll see where you stand on the six strands of Authority and which way you tend to go when you come under pressure.
It will also give you a straight answer on whether the course would help you. If your Authority already is strong, it tells you so.
ONLINE COURSE
THE AUTHORITY PRINCIPLE FOR MANAGERS
You have the title and the responsibility, but not the Authority to get the results you are accountable for. This course is built to fill that authority gap.
It is created for managers like you who lead a team day to day. It can be team leaders, supervisors, shift leads, department managers, store and practice managers, and project managers with a team. All kinds of managers.
What you will learn
- Why a team gladly follows one manager and only obeys another.
- How to stay clear-headed when pressure, doubt or conflict hits you
- How to keep up a standard, even with your strongest performers
- How to back your people without letting things slide
- How to earn standing with your own boss and your peers
Course Content
40 video microlessons | 8 modules, one a week | You start immediately when you sign up | 6–8 minutes per lesson | For managers in any sector
MODULE 1
The Standing You Can’t Order
MODULE 2
Steady Under Pressure
MODULE 3
Knowing What You Know
MODULE 4
Your Word
MODULE 6
On Their Side
MODULE 5
Holding The Line
MODULE 7
In The Middle
MODULE 8
Tested By Pressure And Time
HOW IT WORKS
The course consists of video micro-lessons, made to watch on your phone. Each one has large captions, so you can watch with sound, with sound off, or just listen on the way to work.
- One idea per lesson. You learn one tool properly instead of half-remembering five different frameworks.
- There are no assignments. Every lesson ends with one thing to try during the week.
- You get lifetime access. Start when it suits you, go at your own pace and rewatch whenever you need.
- You start when you enroll. No schedule to follow. You take the course in your own time and speed.
The course consists of video micro-lessons, made to watch on your phone. Each one has large captions, so you can watch with sound, with sound off, or just listen on the way to work.
Micro-lessons give you maximum effect.
MISSION AND FOUNDER
THE IDEA BEHIND
As manager you are given a title. Authority is something you have to earn. The Authority Principle teaches you how. Authority is the respect people give freely to someone whose knowledge, character and care hold up under pressure. People follow them willingly, and they grow by doing so.
Authority Principle was created by Leonhart Lowell Laponnel. He has spent three decades building and running companies. He grew a small Danish family business into an international operation, which became Denmark’s fastest-growing company in 1993. Since then, he has coached executives, trained leaders and sales teams, and created a Danish coaching school.
In all of it, he saw the same thing again and again. The managers people followed weren’t the loudest. And not the ones with the most impressive titles.
This course teaches you to get this Authentic Authority. You learn to stay steady under pressure, keep the small promises that build trust, and hold standards without force. The result is a team that follows you willingly and gets better because you’re there.
