15 Best Performance Management Courses on Coursera
We compared 15 Performance Management courses currently listed on Coursera, priced from $49.00 to $79.00. 8 come from a named university or institution, including Goldman Sachs, University of California, Santa Barbara and Rice University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 15
- Price range
- $49.00 – $79.00
- Providers
- Coursera
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 15 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from Coursera, matched to "performance management" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $49.00 to $79.00, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Performance Management and Appraisal Systems
Offered by EDUCBA
Learn how to design, evaluate, and apply effective performance management systems that improve employee performance, feedback quality, and organizational effectiveness. This course equips learners with practical skills t...
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Analyze and Design AI-Driven Performance Management Systems
Offered by EDUCBA
Learners will be able to analyze modern performance management challenges, apply Generative AI to employee evaluation and engagement, design intelligent performance metrics, and assess the business impact of AI-enabled p...
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Financial Planning & Analysis and Performance Management
Offered by John Wiley & Sons
This Specialization covers essential financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision-making. Learners will develop skills in financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and capital management, equippin...
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Performance Management And Behavioural Coaching
Offered by The Expert Academy
This course focuses on how to manage and improve performance through structured conversations, feedback and coaching. You’ll learn how to run effective one-to-one meetings, deliver clear and actionable feedback and suppo...
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Fundamentals of Management, with Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women
Offered by Goldman Sachs
This free online course is one of 10 courses available in the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women collection, designed for entrepreneurs ready to take their business to the next level. This course focuses on the most critical res...
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Managing the Talent Lifecycle
Offered by University of California, Santa Barbara
This Specialization helps learners build practical HR skills for managing talent across the full employee lifecycle, from workforce planning and recruitment through selection, onboarding, retention, engagement, and inclu...
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Leadership Development for Engineers
Offered by Rice University
Engineers wanting to advance their careers must be able to lead teams effectively. This Specialization is designed for professional engineers who are interested in advancing into leadership and management roles. You’ll d...
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Principles of Leadership: Leading Technical Teams
Offered by University of Colorado Boulder
This class is about becoming a Great Leader. Great Leaders know how to hire great individuals, form and empower great teams, and delegate to those teams appropriately. Working together with the team, they envision what t...
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Creating a Workplace People Want to Be
Offered by University of Alberta
In this course, we’ll examine what defines effective leadership at the senior level, how leadership styles influence workplace culture, and how to foster trust, accountability, and engagement across the organization. We’...
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Coaching Skills for Managers
Offered by University of California, Davis
In this Specialization, you will learn the essential skills to coach people for improved performance. You will learn from Executive Coach and UC Davis Instructor Kris Plachy, who has created and transformed dozens of tea...
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Skills for New Manager Success
Offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato
This Specialization prepares new and aspiring managers with practical, real-world skills to lead teams effectively. Across four courses, you’ll build a strong leadership foundation by learning how to transition into mana...
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Core Human Resources Functions and Strategic Impact
Offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato
By the end of this course, learners will be able to analyze core human resource functions, apply employment laws ethically, design effective talent strategies, and use HR data to inform strategic decisions. Learners will...
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Leadership Out of the Box
Offered by Queen Mary University of London
This specialisation will provide you with a holistic set of tools, skills and frameworks to enable you to step up and lead more effectively. You will develop your own leadership identity, as you explore what it means to...
$49.00listed price -
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Leading People and Performance
Offered by Minnesota State University, Mankato
In this course, you’ll focus on the everyday work of leadership: communicating clearly, giving feedback, coaching for growth, and holding others accountable. You’ll learn practical strategies to lead conversations, suppo...
$49.00listed price -
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Personal Leadership Development Planning and Leading High Performing Teams
Offered by Rice University
An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals with...
$79.00listed price
Best Performance Management Courses on Coursera compared
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 15 priced courses on this page run from $49.00 to $79.00, with the middle of the range around $49.00 — a spread of $30.00. The options are closely priced, so cost is unlikely to be your deciding factor. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from Coursera. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 8 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including Goldman Sachs, University of California, Santa Barbara and Rice University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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