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Last Updated: 2025-11-28
Create Development Items

Create Development Items

  • Configure Development Items.
  • Configure security for these domains in the Career and Development Planning and Performance Enablement functional areas:
    • Self-Service: Development Items
    • Self-Service: Delete Development Item
    • Worker Data: Development Items
    • Worker Data: Delete Development Item
You can create Development Items to track progress of skills and experiences you want to improve, helping your career planning and professional development. You can associate Development Items with job profiles, job interests, competencies, or work experiences to highlight their purpose.
For Career Hub customers, Generative AI (GenAI) functionality is available to:
  • Help employees draft and modify content for Development Items in Career Hub.
  • Suggest Development Items to employees based on their career interests.
See Concept: Career Hub.
  1. Access Development Items for yourself or your team members on these reports:
    • My Development Items
    • My Team's Development Items
      Development Items
  2. Click
    Add
     to create a new Development Item.
  3. As you complete the task, consider:
    Option Description
    Development Item
    Describe the Development Item in 140 characters or less.
    Skills to Develop
    Select skills based on your job profile, a skill category, or skill interests.
    When you select skills, Workday adds them as skill interests on the worker profile if they aren't already listed. Your skill interests are also updated in your Career Hub profile.
    If you remove a skill as a skill interest, it will still remain associated with your Development Item. Also, if you remove a skill from the Development Item, the skill will remain as a skill interest.
    Relates To
    Select values from the categories that the Development Item supports. Examples:
    • Competencies.
    • Job interests.
    • Job profiles.
    • Work experiences.
    The prompt offers suggestions based on your current job profile, competencies, and work experiences, plus any job profiles that match your job interests.
You can:
  • Include Development Items in talent or employee reviews. After you complete the review, Workday updates these items in profiles and reports.
  • Edit Development Items that aren't in active employee or talent reviews:
    • From the
      My Development Items
       report, click the edit icon on the development item.
    • In the
      Career Hub
      , click
      Plan
       to view your development items, then click
      Manage Development Item
      .
  • View changes to Development Items on these reports:
    • My Development Items Changed in Last Week (Include Delete and Not Applicable)
    • My Team's Development Items Changed in Last Week (Include Delete and Not Applicable)
  • Create alerts for Development Items in custom reports. Example: Copy the
    My Team's Development Items Changed in Last Week (Include Delete and Not Applicable)
     report and Configure and View Alerts.