Webinars

Area	Webinar Summary	Webinar Date
Staffing	Summer Appointments Reviews best practices for extending appointments of Faculty and Graduate Assistants into the summer semester and the impacts on insurance coverage. Guidance is provided on best practices for staffing and compensation as well as collaboration between Human Resources, Benefits and Payroll offices	04/01/2020
Merit	Merit 2020 Preview Previews updates made to the Merit Process including new reports, features, as well as options available to reduce the need for multiple entries during the Merit Process	03/25/2020
Recruiting	Recruiting Dashboard Enhancements Explores new features that allow you to view job requisitions, evergreens and recruiting processes with a finer granularity. Demonstrates how reports are pulled faster and easier using new tabs and enhanced filtering	03/04/2020
Workday Fundamentals	Workday Release Preview Provides an overview of what to expect from the new Workday release in March 2020	02/27/2020
Performance and Goals	Employee Development Items Discusses the Development Items feature in Workday which allows Managers and Employees to work together to create items to track the growth and development of an Employee’s knowledge, skills and abilities. Discusses the difference between Goals and Development Items, how to create and manage Development Items and review available reports	02/12/2020
Time Tracking	Assign Work Schedule Explains assigning and creating work schedules for an employee in Workday. The Assign Work Schedule business process was recently updated in December. Managers and Timekeepers can create a custom work schedule for the employee	01/15/2020
Staffing	Summer Appointments for Faculty and Graduate Assistants Provides best practice recommendations for handling summer appointments of faculty and graduate assistants with the goal of ensuring employees are appropriately paid, their insurance maintained and employment benefits comply with policy	12/11/2019
Time Tracking	It's About Time Provides information on functionality and new features related to timekeeping tasks. Discusses key terms, time entry template assignments and the basics for time entries, calculations, overtime and work schedules. Frequently asked questions and troubleshooting tips are also shared	11/20/2019
Payroll	Spotlight on Costing Allocations Explains how costing allocations are set up within Workday, the various levels of costing allocations, the key components of the task, and how costing allocations function with Workday and FAMIS	11/13/2019
Staffing	Spotlight on UINs Provides an overview of UINs, best practices for locating and using the correct UIN, as well as discusses the downstream impacts based on UIN selection and compares the UIN process for newly hired versus rehired employees	10/30/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Monitoring Business Processes Provides an overview of the business process framework, reviews business process definitions, demonstrates monitoring business processes, and gives insight into other monitoring resources	10/16/2019
Benefits	Ready to Retire Discusses a new process that allows Benefit Partners to verify TAMUS retirement eligibility and kick off the retirement process sooner. Employees will be able to make elections earlier before they retire and billing can begin more timely	09/11/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Spotlight on Security Roles Discusses security role use, assigning security roles, approving security role assignments, and the best practices for overall security role management. Two new roles are also reviewed	9/26/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Workday 33 Preview Provides an overview of what to expect from the new Workday release	8/29/2019
Workday Fundamentals	TDEM Employee and Manager Training Provides an overview of fundamental Workday concepts including navigating, searching, worker profiles, security roles and initiating business processes. This training is specific to the Texas Department of Emergency Management but also includes helpful information for Employees and Managers at all members	8/21/2019
Staffing	Job Classifications Discusses and defines the various job classifications, demonstrates how the job classification can be overridden at the position level, and discusses reports that can be used to identify job classifications	6/19/2019
Merit	Managing Merit in Workday Provides an overview of activities for Merit Planners to perform as they participate in the annual merit process at their system member. Demonstrations for entering awards, maintaining pools, and running reports are discussed	6/12/2019
Benefits	Spotlight on Open Enrollment Provides an overview of the process for Open Enrollment where Employees will elect benefits for the upcoming fiscal year. Discusses how staffing decisions can impact the Open Enrollment experience for Employees, and how those decisions can possibly trigger an unexpected Open Enrollment event	6/05/2019
Performance and Goals	Spotlight on Goal Setting Provides a refresher on the goal setting process and how this process differs from ad hoc goals managers and employees can create throughout the year. Reminders on how to launch Goal Setting and an overview of the Goal Setting process are also provided with a live demo	5/29/2019
Merit	Merit System Wide Kickoff-2019 Explains the upcoming Merit process for 2019	4/25/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Navigate and Customize Your Workspace Provides an overview of best practices for navigating Workday and using your inbox more efficiently	5/08/2019
Staffing	Managing Organizations Provides a comprehensive overview of the various organizations that exist in Workday, both as Workday delivered and custom organizations, designed to meet the needs of the Texas A&M University System	4/24/2019
Payroll	Costing Allocations Overviews various situations with costing allocations and helps the user in making appropriate decisions	4/18/2019
Recruiting	Welcome to the Hub Overview of how Recruiting Partners will navigate the new Recruiting Hub	4/17/2019
Benefits	Spotlight on Summer Premiums-2019 Discusses the various methods for collecting summer premium deductions for employees in appointments less than 12 months	4/03/2019
Staffing	Verify National ID Explains the process for an employee to verify their social security number in Workday, the details of masking the social security number in Workday and for which security roles it is visible	3/26/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Managing Reassign Task Demonstrates how the Security Partner manages the Reassign task business process at each member	3/20/2019
Performance and Goals	Spotlight on Performance-2019 Reviews the performance process including information on goals, templates and new features implemented over the past year	3/19/2019
Merit	Merit Preview-2019 Discusses the various recommendations for the upcoming Merit process and what users can anticipate this year	3/07/2019
Benefits	SGIP for New Hires Discusses the new process for categorizing employees who would like to take advantage of their benefits prior to the SGIP start date	2/21/2019
Workday Fundamentals	Business Process Definitions Reviews business process definitions, security roles as it relates to the definition and provides a demonstration of reviewing a business process definition in Workday.	2/07/2019
Staffing	Report No Show Provides information about the Report No Show business process	1/22/2019
Staffing	Onboarding 2.0 Details provided on the improved onboarding process	11/27/2018
Staffing	Mark Pre-hires for Deletion Provides an overview of the business process, security role details and impacts	11/08/2018
Staffing	Contingent Workers Compares the Contingent Worker and Employee worker types and provides information on how to appropriately set up the supervisory organization	1/25/2018
Time Tracking	Mass Submission Approval Provides information about options for processing time and absence mass submissions and mass approvals	1/09/2018