Setup Considerations: Talent Highlights

Talent Highlights are draft lists of strengths and growth opportunities for employees, created by Generative AI. Managers generate this draft content for their direct reports, for example, to get quick insights about them or to help prepare for career conversations. Managers can edit the content and must confirm their review to ensure human oversight. Source data for Talent Highlights, which is limited to what the manager can access, displays alongside the content itself for transparency.

Managers save time gathering data from different areas of Workday when preparing for career conversations with their direct reports, looking for upskilling opportunities for their team, and getting to know career information about new direct reports.

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 easier for them to approach their first rounds of career conversations.

Managers can:

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 of your workers are eligible for Talent Highlights?	Individual workers need to meet eligibility conditions before managers can generate Talent Highlights for them, including the worker type, their location, and the 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 they surface in context where managers complete their work. Manager Insights Hub gives 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.
Do managers hold career conversations with contingent workers in your organization?	Contingent workers are not eligible for Talent Highlights.
Do managers need to access talent information from mobile devices?	Talent Highlights, including the associated tasks, reports, and cards, are unavailable in the Workday mobile application and in mobile browsers.
Which SKUs does your Workday subscription include?	Your Workday subscription must include the Talent Optimization product area, that is, the Talent Optimization SKU or Talent Optimization Add-On SKU. Talent Highlights are not available if you do not subscribe to one of these SKUs.
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. For example, they can copy the content into an employee review.

To provide a more convenient entry point to Talent Highlights tasks and reports, Workday strongly recommends implementing

Manager Insights Hub

. See Steps: Set Up Manager Insights Hub. Otherwise, consider adding Talent Highlights tasks and reports to business processes, journeys, or dashboards for easier access.

(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.

Configure these domains in the Manager Insights Hub functional area:

No impact.

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’s based on the Worker business object and supports embedded analytics.
View Team Talent Highlights	View talent highlights content for workers by supervisory organization.

The

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.

No impact.

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.