Workday Fundamentals for Managers (SAMPLE COURSE)
Learn how to use Workday confidently as a line manager. This course supports people managers responsible for approvals, job changes and recruitment activity within their teams.
In this course, you will learn how to:
- Navigate Workday confidently as a line manager
- Manage approvals and absence-related tasks for team members
- Perform common job changes and people updates
- Raise job requisitions and review candidates
- Track and follow key people processes within Workday
Who is this course for?
Line managers and people managers who use Workday to manage team changes, approvals and recruitment activity. This example outline reflects a real client programme, with final content shaped through consultation.
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Course Outline
Course overview
Duration: Typically half a day (shaped to your configuration and audience)
This Workday Manager Fundamentals training module is for Managers who need to gain a more detailed overview of the Workday system from a Manager’s perspective.
It shows how processes are managed and tracked and how to navigate within the system and perform key managerial tasks.
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
- Raise job requisitions and review candidates
Content
Absences
- Reporting sickness for employees
- Approving/Denying a leave of absence
- Returning a worker from leave
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,
- Contractor/Contingent Worker changes
Job Requisition
- Raising a job requisition
- Contingent workers vs permanent
- Review candidates
Termination
- Voluntary vs involuntary
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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