Steps: Set Up Flex Teams
Review setup considerations for Talent Marketplace. See Setup Considerations: Talent Marketplace.
Review the Innovation Services setup details. See Steps: Set Up Talent Marketplace.
You can set up the Flex Teams application so that administrators and flex team hosts can create temporary work assignments that they can promote to internal candidates. Flex Teams consist of either the simple or advanced team type. Workday uses machine learning to determine which workers have the best skills for each flex team.
To use custom labels throughout Talent, use the
Maintain Custom Labels
task. Create custom labels to replace the default Workday labels Flex Team and Flex Teams with your organization's terms. Refer to Create Custom Labels for details regarding search terms that don't update after a custom label change.- Access theCreate Business Process Definition (Default Definition)task.Create and configure default definitions for these business processes in the Talent Marketplace functional area:
- Add Flex Team Member
- Manage Flex Team. When you want to create assignable roles for flex teams, add theAssign Rolesallowed action on the business process definition.
Security:Business Process AdministrationandManage: Business Process Definitionsdomains in the System functional area. - (Optional) Set up Enterprise Interface Builder (EIB) integrations for the Flex Teams web service operations.
- (Optional) Create Custom Notifications.Configure a custom notification to notify a manager when their direct report initiates theManage Flex Teambusiness process.
- Access theMaintain Flex Team Availabilitiestask.Configure flex team availabilities and select the default for Career Hub or Opportunity Marketplace onboarding. The Workday-owned flex team availability ofNot Availableis required and is always an option for workers when choosing their availability for flex teams.Security:Set Up: Flex Teamsin the Talent Marketplace functional area.
- Access theMaintain Flex Team Typestask.Create flex team types to enable workers to filter flex teams by type in Opportunity Marketplace.Security:Set Up: Flex Teamsin the Talent Marketplace functional area.
- Access theMaintain Flex Team Categoriestask.Create flex team categories to enable workers to filter flex teams by category in Opportunity Marketplace.Security:Set Up: Flex Teamsin the Talent Marketplace functional area.
- Add theManage Flex Teamsreport to theCareer for Worker Profileprofile group to display relevant flex teams and worker flex team histories.
- Set up anytime feedback to enable flex team hosts to provide feedback for flex team members.
- (Optional) Enable express interest notes to allow flex team candidates to add a custom message when expressing interest in a flex team.On theEdit Tenant Setup - HCMtask, Talent section, select the option toEnable Flex Teams Express Interest Notes.Security:Set Up: Tenant Setup - HCMin the System functional area.
- (Optional) Set up additional manager evaluations for performance reviews to enable flex team hosts to add comments to performance reviews for members of their teams. See Steps: Set Up Additional Manager Evaluations.
- (Optional) To enable linking individual goals to flex teams using theRelates Tofield for a goal, access theConfigure Talent Tagstask and addFlex Teamto theTalent Tagsfor Goals.Security:Set Up: Talentin the Talent Pipeline functional area.
- (Optional) Access theConfigure Profile Summarytask.Add theFlex Teamscard to the Worker Profile.
Users can access:
- TheBrowse Flex Teamsreport to view flex team opportunities. This report is available even when you don't enable flex teams for Opportunity Marketplace.
- TheManage Flex Teamsreport to create and manage flex teams. When a user creates a flex team, Workday automatically assigns them as the flex team host.
On a flex team's manage team page, the flex team host can use the
Show Me
filter to view interested candidates. From the related actions on the candidate card, flex team hosts can select View Express Interest Note
to review the candidate's custom message. When a candidate is added to the flex team, the flex team host can view the interest note on the Flex Teams
tab in the Career
profile group of the worker's profile. Enable flex team opportunities for Opportunity Marketplace.