Concept: Talent Highlights

Talent Highlights are draft lists of an employee’s strengths and opportunities, generated by AI from the employee’s recent talent data in Workday. Managers can use Talent Highlights to:

Save time preparing for career conversations.

Get insights about the employee’s performance from across multiple sources of talent data.

Start to get to know a new direct report.

Learn about how to approach career conversations as a new manager.

Talent Highlights content surfaces in a rich text editor, so managers can edit it. To ensure human oversight, managers must also confirm their review of the content before they save it. Managers can use the content in other talent- and performance-related tasks and processes. Example: They can copy and paste content as comments in a performance review or use it for talking points during a check-in meeting.

Manager Insights Hub

is the recommended entry point to Talent Highlights. Cards in the

Overview

and

Performance

section show the team’s eligibility for Talent Highlights. For each eligible team member:

The

Talent Highlights

tab shows the existing Talent Highlights content.

A suggested action for support links to the

Generate Talent Highlights for Employee

task when they have no new Talent Highlights within the past 90 days.

Talent Highlights Content

Talent Highlights consist of Strengths and Opportunities, and each section can have up to 5 list items.

Each strength displays with a description, and each opportunity displays with a description and up to 3 suggested actions for addressing it.

Data Sources Panel

To increase the transparency of Talent Highlights content, managers can view the source data alongside the generated content. Workday surfaces the source data at the time of content generation on the

Generate Talent Highlights for Employee

and

View Talent Highlight

tasks. This data is a snapshot, and does not show subsequent changes.

Eligibility for Talent Highlights

Managers can only generate Talent Highlights for eligible direct reports.

Workers must meet all of these eligibility criteria:

Criteria	Details
Minimum data requirement	The worker needs a combined total of 150 words of valid talent data from 1 or both of these sources: Public feedback. Worker and manager comments on performance reviews. To determine what data is valid for Talent Highlights, see Reference: Talent Highlights Source Data.
Worker type	Employees only. Contingent workers aren't eligible.
Location	Workers can't have an active primary or additional position in excluded locations, which you can configure in the Edit Tenant Setup - HCM task. See Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights.

Reporting is available to check worker eligibility:

You can check worker eligibility by creating a custom report with the

Eligible for Talent Highlights

report field, secured to the Worker Data: Talent Highlights
and Set Up: Talent Highlights
domains.

Managers can check their team's eligibility and see reasons for ineligibility using the

My Team’s Talent Highlights Eligibility

report, secured to the Worker Data: Talent Highlights
domain.

AI assistance is not available if an employee's source data exceeds the capacity of Workday's AI model, typically over 100,000 words. When a manager accesses the

Generate Talent Highlights for Employee

task for this employee, Workday displays an error message in the Talent Highlights text editor. The manager can still view the employee’s source talent data and enter Talent Highlights content manually.

Setup Considerations: Talent Highlights

Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights