How to Establish Authority As A Manager Quickly

How to establish authority as a manager quickly and effectively without annoying, alienating or upsetting. The more manager authority you have, the quicker you get work done, the quicker others do what you ask, the less push-back you get and more able you are to influence and impact team performance.

I share 5 super important approaches to how to earn authority as a manager quickly, regardless of your job title or confidence levels.

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Video Time Stamps

00:00 Intro
02:07 Work to build trusting relationships
05:15 Understand first, change second
06:51 Work to publicly remove problems
08:31 Create consistency of direction and expectations
10:15 Borrow credibility from your boss and peers
12:04 In Summary

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Why increase authority as a manager? In short – it enables you to do a much better job, be more influential, have a great impact and get a ton of personal rewards … when used in the right way.

How to build authority as a manager, without relying on your job title or position, starts with building trusting relationships. With good relationships, you will be a lot more persuasive to those people, get a lot more help, get a lot more done, … in short be much more likely to have a performing team. This is massively important to gaining authority as a manager.

To increase your authority as a manager make the time to understand the team and the situation in depth. When you really understand the problems being faced, you can create good solutions. Jump into action too fast and you risk making poor decisions or making things worse. Exactly what you don’t want when getting authority as a manager.

Publicly removing problems that impact the team is a brilliant way to increase manager authority. You demonstrate 4 key areas of expertise and show you can help the team. This is great for building authority as a manager.

I explain why consistency of direction and expectations is so important for gaining manager authority. A lot of managers make easily avoided serious mistakes that damage your attempts at getting manager authority. Learn how to avoid these mistakes.

Finally, for how to establish authority as a manager a lot quicker, borrow credibility from your boss, peers and leadership team members. I explain how this dynamic works and give you 5 practical tips you can implement right away to gain authority through your boss and other managers.

If you have any questions on “How to Establish Authority As A Manager Quickly”, please leave a comment below and I will get back to you.

Jess Coles
enhance.training