Performance Management: Building a High-Accountability, High-Trust Organization
A practical course on setting expectations, coaching performance, and improving results across teams.
This course on Performance Management helps Human Resources professionals and people managers build a stronger, more consistent approach to employee performance. You’ll learn how to set clear expectations, support better conversations, and improve results across teams while strengthening trust and accountability.
Build A High-Accountability Performance Management System
- Learn a practical course on setting expectations, coaching performance, and improving results across teams.
- Strengthen Human Resources practices with clearer goals, better documentation, and fairer reviews.
- Improve manager confidence in delivering feedback, handling tough conversations, and reducing bias.
- Support high performers and address underperformance earlier with a more structured process.
A practical course on setting expectations, coaching performance, and improving results across teams.
This Performance Management course gives you a complete framework for creating a system that is both high-trust and high-accountability. You will explore the foundations of Performance Management, learn how to align goals with business priorities, and define success criteria that make expectations easier to understand and measure.
Throughout the course, you will build the skills needed to run an effective performance cycle from start to finish. That includes ongoing check-ins, useful feedback, coaching for development, and performance reviews that are fair, consistent, and evidence based. You will also learn how to document conversations properly, use the right metrics, and calibrate outcomes across teams so decisions are more aligned.
The course also focuses on managing performance risk before it becomes a bigger issue. You will practice identifying underperformance early, creating effective improvement plans, and handling difficult conversations with confidence and professionalism. At the same time, you will learn how to support high performers, encourage career growth, and continuously improve the system over time.
By the end of the course, you will be better prepared to lead Performance Management in a way that improves results, strengthens manager capability, and creates a more consistent experience across your organization. You will leave with practical tools you can apply immediately in Human Resources and in day-to-day management.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
Foundations of Performance Management
1 lesson
Setting Direction
1 lesson
Performance Standards
1 lesson
Processes and Cadence
1 lesson
Ongoing Manager Conversations
1 lesson
Feedback Skills
1 lesson
Manager as Coach
1 lesson
Measurement and Evidence
1 lesson
Records and Documentation
1 lesson
Review Meetings
1 lesson
Fairness and Consistency
1 lesson
Cross-Team Consistency
1 lesson
Performance Risk Management
1 lesson
Improvement Planning
1 lesson
Communication Under Pressure
1 lesson
Development and Retention
1 lesson
Continuous Improvement
1 lesson
Professor Nathan Ward
Professor Nathan Ward guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.