Your title makes your team comply. This 8-week Online course shows you how
to earn the Authority that makes them follow you
Become the manager your team is happy to follow
These are all Authority problems. The good thing is that Authority can be learned.
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.
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.
Your title tells people that you are in charge. It doesn't tell you whether your people will follow you if they didn't have to.
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.
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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
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.
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.
They are 6–8 minutes each. That easily fits a commute, a coffee break or the gap before your next meeting.
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.
Why so short? Because the only course that changes how you lead is the one you finish.
Micro-lessons give you maximum effect.
The Authority Principle was created by Leonhart Lowell Laponnel. He has spent three decades building and running companies. He led teams himself before leading other managers. 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. This course brings together what he saw over and over in those situations: the managers people followed weren't the loudest. They were the ones who kept their words.
Yes. Authority is not about a personality type. It is built from habits your team can see, and you can learn these in this course.
That is one of the situations the course is built for. Module 1 deals with what changes the day you become the manager.
The 5 weekly lessons are about 30–40 minutes a week, released one module at a time over eight weeks. You have lifetime access - so you can take the lessons when you have the time.
No. Being tough never build authentic authority. It destroys it. Holding a standard and being on your people’s side go together, and the course teaches both.
Take the Authority Check. It tells you honestly, including when you don't.
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