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.

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

To start to get to know a new direct report.

To 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, for example, copying and pasting it as comments in a performance review or using it for talking points during a check-in meeting.

Manager Insights Hub

is the primary 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 display as a bulleted list with two sections: Strengths and Opportunities. 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 enable managers to connect Talent Highlights content to source data in Workday, the

Generate Talent Highlights for Employee

and

View Talent Highlight

tasks surface the source data at the time of content generation. This data is a snapshot, and does not show subsequent changes.

Eligibility for Talent Highlights

Several conditions determine whether a worker is eligible for Talent Highlights, including:

The type of worker.

The worker’s locations.

The amount of talent data the worker has in Workday.

The language of this data.

How recent the data is.

Managers can only generate talent highlights for eligible direct reports.

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.

Check these considerations to understand why a worker is eligible or not:

Location: Employees are ineligible if they have an active primary or additional position in an excluded location. See Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights.

Minimum data requirement: Employees need a combined total of 150 words of valid talent data from these sources:

Public feedback.

Employee and manager comments on performance reviews.

Maximum data limit: Employees cannot have more than 4500 words or 25,000 characters of valid talent data across all sources.

Only valid data counts towards the minimum and maximum data thresholds that determine whether an employee is eligible for Talent Highlights. For more information, see Reference: Talent Highlights Source Data.

Setup Considerations: Talent Highlights

Steps: Set Up Talent Highlights