Workday HCM Configuration and Administration Corporate Training
Configure and administer Workday HCM with confidence, in guided hands-on labs.
This instructor-led program builds practical Workday HCM configuration and administration capability for enterprise HR and systems teams. Learners work through guided labs covering the HCM data model, organizations and staffing, security groups, hiring and onboarding, compensation and benefits, time tracking and absence, and business processes, then complete a capstone tenant build. The curriculum adapts to your organizations and HR processes, so every cohort practices the configuration it owns.
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How we build a people-ready team
The Edstellar WORKDAY HCM ADMINISTRATION Capability Model
Assess HCM capability
Skill checks map your team's Workday HCM proficiency, roles, and administrative scope.
Set shared HR systems standards
One shared playbook for organizations, talent processes, compensation, and time.
Practice in guided labs
Labs cover hiring, onboarding, compensation, benefits, time, and absence setup.
Measure the lift
Lab reviews and the capstone tenant build benchmark each employee's HCM capability.
Scale across teams
One standard rolls out across regions, entities, and HR teams.
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Program Overview: What is Workday HCM Configuration and Administration?
Workday HCM Configuration & Administration is Edstellar's instructor-led program for HR and HRIS administrators who configure the Workday HCM tenant. Over 24 hours, participants master the HCM data model, organizations and staffing, security groups, hiring and onboarding, compensation and benefits, and time tracking and absence. The focus stays on administration: the configuration HR runs daily.
Training is hands-on from the first module. In guided labs inside a practice tenant, participants configure organizations, staffing models, and security groups, then build hiring and onboarding flows with job profiles. Instructors coach each cohort through compensation, payroll inputs, benefits, and time tracking and absence against HR scenarios, reviewing every configuration with direct feedback. The program closes with a capstone where each team completes a configured HCM tenant and validates it against requirements.
HR teams often administer a Workday HCM tenant full of half-configured onboarding flows, compensation rules nobody documented, and absence policies applied inconsistently. This program teaches them to configure hiring, compensation, and time workflows properly, and to keep security groups and business processes clean. HR operations become consistent, explainable, and audit-ready.
For the capstone, each team configures a full HCM tenant from the ground up: data model, organizations, security, hiring and onboarding, compensation and benefits, time and absence, all wired through the right business processes and validated in a reviewer walkthrough. Your HR administrators return with a working HCM tenant they configured themselves and the judgment to run the same validation on your live tenant.
Across 24 hours, cohorts move from HCM concepts to applied configuration builds. The program adapts to your organizations, security groups, and HR processes, and delivery runs onsite, live virtual, or hybrid to suit your schedule.
What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams
- 1
HCM orientation
Navigate the Workday HCM tenant with confidence.
- 2
Core HCM labs
Configure hiring, compensation, and benefits workflows.
- 3
Time and processes
Set up time tracking, absence, and HCM processes.
- 4
Administration practice
Run security and mass operations routines.
- 5
Capstone build
Deliver and validate a configured HCM tenant.
- Instructor-led live sessions
- Practice tenant access for labs
- Configuration lab guides and workbooks
- Flexible batch scheduling
- Group sizes for hands-on practice
- Post-program support resources
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Workday HCM Configuration and Administration Course Topics and Program Outline
A 24-hour instructor-led curriculum spanning the HCM tenant, organizations and security, guided configuration labs, time and absence, processes, and a capstone tenant build.
Built by Edstellar with Workday HCM expertise
Built by practitioners who administer Workday HCM in production, shaped around your stack and use cases.
Skill checks map your HR team's current Workday HCM proficiency, roles, and administrative responsibilities.
Instructor-led sessions cover the HCM tenant, worker data model, organizations, and security groups.
Guided labs configure hiring, compensation, and benefits in a practice tenant with instructor support.
Teams configure time, absence, and HCM processes, then deliver a validated capstone HCM build.
From HCM foundations to a validated tenant build, every configuration is practiced in guided labs.
Delivered as
Delivered as a hybrid program of live instruction and guided labs, scheduled around your team's calendar in flexible batches.
Explore the HCM tenant and map the worker data model.
learna)HCM functional areas and navigation
b)Worker data model and effective dating
c)Configuration versus administrative tasks
d)Tenant habits for safe administration
Build supervisory organizations and assign security groups.
learna)Supervisory organizations and hierarchies
b)Staffing models and position management
c)Role-based and user-based security groups
d)Security administration routines
Practice lab: configure a hiring process from requisition to onboarding.
practicea)Job profiles, job families, and positions
b)Hiring and offer business processes
c)Onboarding setup and task lists
d)Probation and employment verification steps
Practice lab: configure compensation and benefits enrollment events.
practicea)Compensation packages and plans
b)Payroll input processing and audits
c)Benefits groups and enrollment events
d)Compensation reporting and audits
Practice lab: configure time and absence, then route HCM processes.
applya)Time tracking configuration and calendars
b)Absence plans, accruals, and requests
c)Business process routing for HCM
d)Mass operations and administrative tasks
Capstone build: deliver a validated configured HCM tenant and present it.
applya)Scenario kickoff and build planning
b)Full HCM configuration build across modules
c)End-to-end validation and testing
d)Configuration review and instructor feedback
Customize this program tailored to your team?
Tell us your training needs: what your team already works with, the level they’re at, and the topics you want them to focus on. We’ll adjust the modules, duration and hands-on labs, and send you a customized outline for your group.
Key Skills and Outcomes Your Team Will Gain
Hands-on Workday HCM configuration labs build real HR-systems fluency for your team.
Navigate the Workday HCM tenant
Move confidently through HCM work areas, worker profiles, and tasks.
Configure organizations and staffing
Build supervisory organizations, positions, and staffing models.
Administer HCM security groups
Assign role-based and user-based security for HCM responsibilities.
Configure hiring and onboarding
Set up job profiles, hiring processes, and onboarding task lists.
Configure compensation and benefits
Build compensation packages, payroll inputs, and benefits enrollment.
Configure time and absence
Set up time tracking, absence plans, and accruals for your workforce.
Validate a configured HCM tenant
Test and review a full HCM configuration build before production.
Teams that Benefit from this Workday HCM Configuration and Administration Group Training
This program suits HR operations, talent acquisition, shared services, and compensation teams administering Workday. Content adapts to role and experience, so each cohort practices the configuration it owns.
Run HR administration with control
HR operations teams learn to administer hiring, onboarding, and worker data inside Workday HCM.
Workflow friction
- Manual onboarding steps
- Inconsistent worker records
- Slow process updates
How the program helps
- Faster onboarding cycles
- Cleaner worker data
- Reliable HR processes
Practice use cases
- Onboarding workflows
- Worker data
- Process updates
Configure hiring that scales
Talent teams practice configuring job profiles, requisitions, and hiring processes that scale.
Workflow friction
- Ad-hoc hiring steps
- Unclear approvals
- Slow offer cycles
How the program helps
- Consistent hiring workflows
- Faster time to offer
- Clear requisition tracking
Practice use cases
- Requisitions
- Job profiles
- Offer processes
Standardize HCM work globally
Shared services teams standardize time, absence, and administrative tasks across regions and entities.
Workflow friction
- Region-by-region variation
- Ticket backlogs
- Process drift
How the program helps
- Consistent global processes
- Faster ticket resolution
- Clear audit trails
Practice use cases
- Time and absence
- Admin tasks
- Global standards
Configure pay and benefits right
Compensation and benefits teams practice configuring packages, plans, and enrollment events.
Workflow friction
- Complex plan rules
- Enrollment errors
- Payroll input rework
How the program helps
- Accurate compensation data
- Reliable enrollment cycles
- Cleaner payroll inputs
Practice use cases
- Comp packages
- Benefits enrollment
- Payroll inputs
Cohorts train as a cross-functional HR workforce, with each small group aligned on shared data and process standards.
Prerequisites: HR and systems staff benefit most, especially those administering worker data or HCM processes. Workday familiarity helps but is not required, and no prior HRIS experience is expected. Sessions adapt to each cohort's tools, processes, and experience level.
HR Generalist to Workday HCM Lead
Learners progress from worker data basics to delivering validated HCM tenant configurations.
A program that grows with HR systems careers, from worker data basics to owning HCM builds.
Mixed cohort, or several teams at once?
We can tailor the training to different teams, roles, and experience levels within the same program.
Certificate of Training Completion.
On successful completion, employees receive an Edstellar course completion certificate, recognizing their commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. It validates the skills they have built and motivates them to keep growing and contribute to organizational success.
Earned, not attended. Awarded on completion of all hands-on labs and the capstone project.
Training Delivery Modes: Virtual, Onsite and Hybrid
Choose how your team trains: live virtual, onsite, or a hybrid blend. Every mode includes instructor-led sessions and guided labs.
Hybrid Training
Live instruction blended with self-paced guided labs between sessions, so your team learns together and practices on its own schedule.
- Live sessions blended with lab practice
- Exercises aligned to your HR processes
- Flexible scheduling across time zones
- Instructor feedback on every lab
Onsite Training
An instructor works with your team at your office, aligning every exercise with your tenant configuration and business processes.
- Instructor at your office
- Tenant and process alignment workshops
- Cohort practice in one room
- Immediate troubleshooting support
Live Virtual Training
Live online instructor-led sessions with shared lab environments, giving distributed teams the same hands-on practice as onsite cohorts.
- Live online instructor-led sessions
- Shared practice tenant environments
- Breakout groups for lab work
- Digital lab guides and recordings
Need a training format that works for your team?
Full days, half days across weeks, or split by module. Tell us the delivery window and we schedule the cohort around it.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Share team size, HCM scope, and timelines, and we prepare a tailored proposal with batch options.
Yes. Foundations modules cover the tenant and data model before configuration practice labs begin.
Yes. Instructor-led live virtual sessions include shared lab environments for hands-on configuration.
Yes. Onsite delivery aligns every exercise with your HCM setup and administrative processes.
The program runs 24 hours, scheduled in flexible batches around your team's calendar.
Question not answered here?
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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.
Configuration and administration come after Workday HCM fundamentals, moving your team from using Workday to setting it up and keeping it running. Once business processes and security are configured, the path moves to Workday integrations and then to people analytics on the data the system produces.
Why Choose Edstellar as Your Workday HCM Configuration and Administration Corporate Training Provider
Edstellar brings 5+ years of enterprise training experience to Workday HCM programs. Your team learns from practitioners, practices in guided tenant labs, and leaves with measurable capability across hiring, compensation, and time.
EXPERT TRAINERS
YEARS DELIVERING
ORGANIZATIONS TRAINED
CERTIFIED
Tailored
Every cohort configures around your organizations, security groups, and HCM processes, not generic demos.
Proven Methodology
Instructor-led modules move from HCM concepts to guided configuration labs, then a capstone tenant build.
Practice-Based Learning
Hands-on tenant labs cover hiring, compensation, time, absence, processes, and security administration.
Expert Trainers
Workday HCM practitioners lead sessions, matched to your team's setup and confirmed before booking.
Global Scale
One curriculum standard runs across regions and time zones, keeping every HR team aligned.
Measurable Outcomes
Lab reviews and the capstone tenant build benchmark capability before, during, and after the program.
Configure Workday HCM With Consistent Organizations, Security, and Process Validation
Edstellar develops Workday HCM administration through the relationships between tenant structures and everyday HR processes. Participants configure organizations, staffing, and security before building hiring, compensation, benefits, time, and absence workflows. A validated tenant build demonstrates how their choices affect process routing, worker records, and the evidence needed to review configuration.
- Step 01
Consult
We explore HRIS and worker-data responsibilities, identifying gaps in Workday organizations, staffing models, security groups, hiring workflows, and the configuration of compensation, time, or absence.
- Step 02
Plan
We establish the HCM tenant and data model, configure organizations and access, then connect hiring, compensation, benefits, and time processes in a validated tenant build.
- Step 03
Align
We align Workday HCM expertise with HR and systems administrators, confirming suitable practice access and adjusting configuration guidance to their HRIS and process administration experience.
- Step 04
Customize
We adapt fictional organizations, job profiles, and worker scenarios to familiar HR structures, preserving security and routing decisions without importing employee records or changing real employment data.
- Step 05
Execute
Participants build supervisory organizations, assign security groups, and configure time and absence workflows, receiving feedback on data relationships, process routing, access boundaries, and validation results.
- Step 06
Evaluate
We assess the configured tenant for consistent organizational structures, appropriate security assignments, correctly routed HCM processes, and validation evidence that makes remaining configuration issues visible.
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Workday HCM Configuration & Administration Training Packages & Pricing
Where L&D holds an annual budget, license packages price the whole year at once instead of raising a purchase order per workshop. Hours and licenses are pooled across teams, programs and locations, so unused capacity is not stranded in one department.
Starter
120
trainee licenses64 hours of group training
Tailored for SMBs
Growth
320
trainee licenses160 hours of group training
Ideal for growing SMBs
Enterprise
800
trainee licenses400 hours of group training
Designed for large corporations
Custom
Unlimited
trainee licensesDuration set by the rollout
Multi-region and multi-year
Training Packages & Pricing
Choose the training format that works for your team. Pricing is customized based on your requirements, cohort size, and delivery needs.
Request Workday HCM Configuration and Administration Training for Your Team
Share your team size, HCM scope, organizational setup, and timelines to receive a tailored training plan and quote. Book a discovery call to discuss your goals; we confirm availability and respond with a proposal.