Close daily tasks in minutes: request time off, submit timesheets, expense reports, performance reviews, team approvals
What You Will Learn:
- Take away 70+ ready-to-use tools in 20 downloadable resources: lecture presentations plus 10 interactive HTML tools, one for every lesson task
- Get our top working files: Team Time-Off Planner, Timesheet Pre-Submit Checker, Expense Report Pre-Flight, Approval Decision Guide
- Submit time off, timesheets and expense reports that pass approval on the first try, using pre-submit checks before every Submit
- Clear your My Tasks inbox in a 10-minute pass: sort by due date, decide with four questions, write a comment that needs no follow-up
- Read your payslip from Gross to Net to the cent, check your profile and know the deadline to change benefits after a life event
- Write three goals with an action, a number, a due date and a link to the team goal, and request feedback with two clear questions
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Overview: Why This Isn’t Just Another Software Tutorial
Let’s be honest: nobody wakes up excited to log into their HRIS. In the tech world, we usually view platforms like Workday as a necessary evil—a digital labyrinth standing between us and our actual work. I’ve spent years navigating enterprise ecosystems, and the biggest productivity killer isn’t a bug in the code; it’s the thirty minutes wasted trying to figure out why an expense report got kicked back for the third time. That is exactly why Workday Training for Managers and Employees: 70+ HR Tools caught my eye. It doesn’t treat the software like a sacred cow; it treats it like a tool that needs to be mastered and then shoved aside so you can get back to building things.
What sets this course apart from the standard corporate onboarding snooze-fest is its focus on “pre-flight” logic. Instead of just showing you where the buttons are, it focuses on the industry-standard tools and workflows that ensure your submissions actually land on the first try. It’s less about “how to use Workday” and more about “how to win at Workday.” The instructor clearly understands the friction points—the confusing payslip deductions, the “My Tasks” inbox that grows like a hydra, and the dread of writing performance goals. By providing a beginner to advanced roadmap, the course moves fast, cutting the fluff and focusing on the high-friction areas that usually generate the most tickets for the HR helpdesk.
Prerequisites
You don’t need a degree in Systems Administration to get value here. The requirements are refreshingly low-barrier:
- Basic Computer Literacy: If you can navigate a browser and download a PDF, you’re overqualified.
- Access to a Workday Instance: While not strictly required to watch, having your own company portal open makes this feel like a series of hands-on labs.
- A Desire for Efficiency: This is for the person who is tired of their manager pinging them about an unsubmitted timesheet.
Skills & Tools You’ll Master
The curriculum is packed with job-ready skills that go beyond simple data entry. You aren’t just learning a UI; you’re learning a systematic approach to corporate admin. The course provides a massive toolkit of 20+ downloadable resources that act as a “cheat sheet” for the platform.
- The 10-Minute Inbox Sweep: Learning the four-question framework to clear approvals and tasks without the dreaded follow-up email.
- Financial Literacy: Deconstructing the payslip from Gross to Net. This is a skill most professionals lack, and it’s vital for verifying your total compensation.
- Strategic Goal Setting: Using the “Action-Number-Due Date” formula to write goals that actually align with career growth and departmental KPIs.
- The Pre-Submit Methodology: Using the Timesheet Pre-Submit Checker and Expense Report Pre-Flight tool to avoid the “re-do” loop.
- Interactive HTML Tools: These are essentially real-world projects in miniature, allowing you to practice tasks in a simulated environment before touching your actual profile.
Career Benefits & Job Roles
Mastering industry-standard tools like Workday is an underrated career move. While it might not go on your GitHub, being the person who knows how to navigate “the system” makes you a more effective leader and a less stressed employee. For those looking at certification prep in HR or Project Management, understanding the backend of an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system is a massive leg up.
- Team Leads & Managers: You’ll stop being the bottleneck in the approval chain. The Approval Decision Guide alone is worth the price of admission for anyone managing a headcount.
- Individual Contributors: It protects your time. Reducing the mental overhead of HR tasks means more deep-work hours.
- HR Operations Aspirants: If you’re looking to transition into HR Tech, this course provides a solid foundation of the end-user experience.
Pros
- Tactical and Practical: It skips the theoretical “why” of HR and dives straight into the “how” of getting tasks done.
- High-Value Assets: The Team Time-Off Planner and Expense Pre-Flight tools are better than what most 500-person companies provide internally.
- Clarity on Benefits: The section on life events and benefit changes is a lifesaver for anyone who has ever missed a deadline for 401k or health insurance adjustments.
- Efficiency Focused: It respects your time. The “10-minute pass” philosophy for inbox management is a game changer for busy execs.
Cons
- Platform Variance: Because Workday is highly customizable, your company’s specific UI might look slightly different from the course videos, which can be a bit jarring if you aren’t comfortable with slight interface discrepancies.