Setup Considerations: Talent Highlights
You can use this topic to help make decisions when planning your configuration and use of Talent Highlights. It explains:
- Why to set them up.
- How they fit into the rest of Workday.
- Downstream impacts and cross-product interactions.
- Security requirements and business process configurations.
- Questions and limitations to consider before implementation.
Refer to detailed task instructions for full configuration details.
What They Are
Talent Highlights are draft lists of strengths and growth opportunities for employees, created by generative AI. Managers can generate this draft content to view quick insights about their direct reports or to help prepare for career conversations.
Managers can edit the content and must confirm their review for human oversight.
Source data for Talent Highlights, which is limited to what the manager can access, displays alongside the content itself for transparency.
Business Benefits
Managers save time gathering data from different areas of Workday when preparing for career conversations with their direct reports and looking for upskilling opportunities for their team.
Employees and managers benefit from effective career conversations that are enriched by insights from Talent Highlights, helping to drive career development and team performance.
Talent Highlights can help guide new managers, making it faster and easier for them to approach their first rounds of career conversations.
Use Cases
Managers can:
- Use the strengths and growth opportunities from Talent Highlights to quickly prepare for career conversations like check-ins and performance reviews.
- Include Talent Highlights as part of a journey for new managers to ensure that they start to become familiar with their direct reports.
- Generate or view Talent Highlights in context while completing business processes related to talent and performance on the Worker business object.
Questions to Consider
Question | Considerations |
|---|---|
What languages does your workforce use? | Talent Highlights supports only English, both for source data and for the content that the feature generates. |
Do local regulations impact your organization’s use of generative AI in one or more locations? | You can exclude employees from the feature based on their location or location hierarchy. |
Do you want to show specific instructions, such as guidelines or policies for the use of AI tools in your organization? | You can configure help text to give specific instructions to managers while they generate and view Talent Highlights content. |
How many workers in your organization are eligible for Talent Highlights? |
For managers to generate Talent Highlights for a worker, the worker needs to meet eligibility conditions including worker type, location, and amount of recent talent data. See Concept: Talent Highlights. Consider creating a custom report using the Eligible for Talent Highlights report field to determine the level of eligibility in your organization. |
Where do you want to surface Talent Highlights? | Talent Highlights provide the most value when used in context where managers complete their work. To make Talent Highlights easier to access, you can set up the Manager Insights Hub , embed Talent Highlights elsewhere in Workday, or both.When you set up the Manager Insights Hub , managers have quick access to generating Talent Highlights, viewing the content, and seeing employee eligibility, alongside other common manager tasks.You can also enable managers to view and generate Talent Highlights elsewhere in Workday, such as in journeys, business processes, and dashboards. Example: You add the Most Recent Talent Highlights for Worker report as an embedded analytic in a performance review. |
Which product areas does your Workday subscription include? |
To use Talent Highlights, your Workday subscription must include the Talent Optimization product area. |
How does Talent Highlights work with other Talent features? | You can generate and view Talent Highlights content in other areas of Workday through embedded analytics and direct links to the Generate Talent Highlights task.
Managers can then use Talent Highlights as background context or a starting point for their work. Example: Managers can copy the content into an employee review. |
Recommendations
To provide a more convenient entry point to Talent Highlights tasks and reports, Workday strongly recommends implementing the
Manager Insights Hub
. See Steps: Set Up Manager Insights Hub. You can also add Talent Highlights tasks and reports to business processes, journeys, or dashboards for easier access.
Requirements
You might need to take additional steps to enable this feature depending on your organization's subscription service agreement. For more information, see this Community article.
- Your Workday subscription must include the Talent Optimization product area.
- To provide source data for Talent Highlights, you must enable performance review comments or public feedback.
Limitations
- Talent Highlights supports English only, both for source data and for the content it generates.
- Contingent workers are not eligible.
- AI assistance is not available if an employee's valid source data exceeds the capacity of Workday's AI model, typically over 100,000 words.
- Talent Highlights supports Workday data only for source data.
- Talent Highlights are unavailable in the Workday mobile application and in mobile browsers.
Tenant Setup
(Optional) Use the
Edit Tenant Setup - HCM
task to configure these settings for the Generate Talent Highlights
task:
- Location exclusions.
- Location hierarchy exclusions.
- Help text.
Security
Configure these domains in the Manager Insights Hub functional area:
Domains | Considerations |
|---|---|
Worker Data: Talent Highlights
| Enables users to view, generate, edit, and delete Talent Highlights for their eligible direct reports, and to see their team’s eligibility. |
Set Up: Talent Highlights
| Enables users to set up Talent Highlights, view employee eligibility, and view Talent Highlights content from different supervisory organizations. |
Business Processes
No impact.
Reporting
Reports | Considerations |
|---|---|
My Team’s Talent Highlights Eligibility
| View details about worker eligibility and access the Generate Talent Highlights for Employee task. |
Most Recent Talent Highlights for Worker
| View the worker’s most recent talent highlights content. This report is enabled as a related worklet, so you can embed it in a business process that is based on the Worker business object and supports embedded analytics. |
View Team Talent Highlights
| View Talent Highlights content for workers by supervisory organization. |
Talent Highlight Data Source
report data source (secured to the Worker Data: Talent Highlights
domain) enables you to create custom reports showing data about Talent Highlights.The
Eligible for Talent Highlights
report field (secured to the Set Up:Talent Highlights
and Worker Data: Talent Highlights
domains) enables you to create custom reports showing the eligibility of workers in your organization.Integrations
No impact.
Connections and Touchpoints
Workday offers a Touchpoints Kit with resources to help you understand configuration relationships in your tenant. Learn more about the Workday Touchpoints Kit on Workday Community.