Workday HCM (SAMPLE COURSE)
Develop practical skills managing core HR operations in Workday. This in-depth course supports HR Operations teams responsible for organisational structure, job changes, hires and employee lifecycle processes.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Manage organisational structures and supervisory organisations
- Perform simple and complex job changes confidently
- Create positions and raise job requisitions
- Complete different types of hire and onboarding processes
- Terminate employees correctly and compliantly
- Monitor, manage and troubleshoot Workday business processes
Who is this course for?
HR Operations professionals and people teams responsible for managing employee data, organisational changes and core HR processes within Workday. This example outline reflects a real client programme, with final content shaped through consultation.
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Course Outline
Course overview
Duration: Typically 1 day (shaped to your configuration and audience)
Objectives
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Create and manage organisations
- Perform simple and complex job changes
- Terminate an employee
- Create new job positions and raise job requisitions
- Perform different types of hire
- Manage business processes
- Explain the Hire Employee process following Resourcing completion
Content
Organisation Structure
- Position Management
- Creating a Supervisory Organisation and assigning roles
- Move Workers by Supervisory Organisation
- Edit Position Restrictions
Resourcing
- Creating a position
- Raising a job requisition
- Contingent workers vs permanent
Job Change
- Simple changes, e.g. change of job details, change in working hours, compensation, cost centre change, promotion.
- Complex changes, e.g. change of manager, decrease responsibility, secondment.
- Contractor/Contingent Worker changes
Termination
- Voluntary vs involuntary
Managing Processes
- Business Processes awaiting action
- Processes erroring
- Process tracking
- Reassigning, Delegating, Actioning
- Correct, Rescind, Deny
Onboarding
- Hire Employee outside Recruitment
Why Choose Underscore for Workday Training?
Underscore Group delivers practical, instructor-led Workday training that helps organisations adopt the system confidently and use it effectively day to day. Based in Sussex and supporting organisations across the UK, we specialise in role-focused, real-world learning that reflects how Workday is used in practice, not just how it works in theory.
Our Workday training is shaped by deep experience in business change and system adoption. Every programme is tailored through consultation to reflect your organisation’s configuration, processes and user needs, ensuring learning transfers directly into everyday use and supports long-term capability.
Our Workday training programmes have supported organisations in sectors including engineering, healthcare and professional services.
- Trusted by leading UK organisations
- Proven experience delivering Workday training
- Strong heritage in business change and system adoption
- Training tailored to your organisation’s processes and ways of working
- Expert trainers with real-world Workday experience
- Virtual & onsite delivery across the UK
- Six months of post-course support
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