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Last Updated: 2025-12-12
Concept: AI-Generated Development Items

Concept: AI-Generated Development Items

Workday provides AI assistance to help employees and managers create detailed, structured, and actionable development items that align with employees’ career interests.
AI assistance is available in the
Career Hub
 and
Manager Insights Hub
 for drafting the
Additional Details
 field in a development item.

Feature Availability

In the
Career Hub
, employees can access AI assistance when creating a development item, and they can also view suggested development items based on Skills Cloud skills and their career interests.
In the
Manager Insights Hub
, managers can create development items for their direct reports using AI assistance.
Generating development item content isn’t available when:
  • Editing a saved development item in the
    Career Hub
    .
  • Creating a development item from the
    My Development Items
     report or from employee reviews.
Note:
  • Workday supports this feature in all languages supported by Career Hub. See Workday Community: Languages.
  • Workday only supports generating and modifying development item content with AI on desktop. Employees can access suggested development items on desktop and mobile, however.

Output Format

The
Additional Details
 content for AI-generated development items has a standardized format including:
  • An objective.
  • Additional related skills.
  • Steps with examples.
  • A suggested result.

Generating and Modifying Content with AI

Before generating content with AI, users must specify 1 to 3
Skills to Develop
.
Employees can enter their own content and then modify it using AI, for example, to make the generated content more specific to their organization, role, or upcoming projects. Employees can also edit the AI-generated content before saving the development item.
After generating or manually entering content in the
Additional Details
 field, users can modify it with AI using these options:
  • Make More Challenging
    : For advanced skill development, this option can increase the complexity of the steps, the impact of the results, and the need for data to show successful completion.
  • Make Easier
    : Makes the item simpler and easier to achieve, for developing skills at a more basic level.
  • Generate Another
    : Generates a different development item based on the skills to develop.
  • Revert to Original
    : Reverts to the first version of the AI-generated content for this development item. This option is unavailable for Suggested Development Items. This option also doesn’t restore content that users entered manually.
Note: Users get different results each time they use AI, and they can’t restore their own content after modifying it with AI. Consider instructing users to copy any
Additional Information
 text that they want to keep before modifying it with AI.

Source Data

Source data for the AI-generated content includes:
  • The skills to develop.
  • The title of the development item, if you enter one.
  • The employee’s current business title.
  • The employee’s worker skills.
For transparency, users can view details about the source data alongside the generated content. See Workday Community: Career Hub Generate Development Items AI Fact Sheet for details.

Creating Development Items for Direct Reports

In the
Manager Insights Hub
, managers can create development items for their direct reports, from the employee’s:
  • Development Items & Interests
    .
  • Career Path
    , if the employee has shared a career path.
When an employee receives a development item from their manager, the employee has full control over it, including editing it, deleting it, and updating its status.

Suggested Development Items

When you enable AI-generated development items, Workday surfaces suggested development items to employees in the
Career Hub
 based on Skills Cloud skills and employee career interests. Employees can view these suggestions in:
  • The
    Plan
    For Your Career Growth
     section, based on the employee’s skill interests, business title, and job title. These suggestions don’t use skills that are already part of an in progress development item.
  • The
    Begin Working Toward Your Next Role
     section of a saved career path in
    Explore
    , if enabled, based on the worker’s business title, their next role, and their skill gaps for this role.