This course contains the use of artificial intelligence

The implementer left. The tenant is yours. What do you change first?

Most new Workday admins answer "something small, straight in Production". One quiet fix later, an integration fails at 2 a.m. and nobody can say who changed what, or why.

The real problem is not Workday. It is configuration without a method.

HRIS teams inherit tenants they did not build: approval steps nobody can explain, security groups with no owner, schedules running under the account of someone who left, a change log with empty "why" columns. Every request from the business turns into a week of waiting for a consultant who is no longer on the project.

This course gives you that method, one configuration area at a time.

You will work inside one realistic story: a nonprofit with 2,400 workers, three states and a Workday tenant handed over to a three-person HRIS team. Lesson by lesson you take ownership of it, and every lesson ends with a working file you can reuse in your own tenant.

What changes after the course:

• You stop changing Production first. Every change gets a Sandbox row, a reason and a reviewer who is not the builder.
• You read a business process before you edit it. Steps, Completion, conditions and routing make sense, and you test offers at and around the threshold.
• You grant the least access that works. You know who sees what, why, and who may activate a policy change.
• You build fields and reports that survive the next request. Calculated fields are tested on boundary and blank values, and reports start from a one-page plan.
• You load data and run releases without surprises. EIB templates are checked before Validate Only, integrations run under their own system users, and every feature release has a risk-scored test list.

Who teaches it

Mike has 20 years in HR and has built and run HR systems in fast-growing companies, including the HR system of the unicorn Preply and HR work at Wargaming. He holds PHRi, SHRM-CP and HCI sHRBP certifications, is the HRCI representative in Eastern Europe, the author of about 200 books on Amazon and an HR instructor with 1,800,000+ course enrollments and 170,000 students on Udemy.

How the course flows

First you map the tenants and set the rules for every change. Then you work through the foundation: supervisory organizations, staffing models and positions. Next come the areas that drive system behavior: business processes, configurable security, calculated fields and condition rules. After that you control what goes out of and into Workday: custom reports and dashboards, EIB and mass changes, and integrations without code. Finally you learn to test feature releases and to work like a functional consultant: requirements, design decisions and a first 90-day plan.

Workday screens in the videos are mockups rebuilt from Workday's public documentation; your tenant may look slightly different. This is an independent course, not affiliated with or endorsed by Workday, and it does not prepare you for a Workday certification.

What's included

• 10 interactive HTML workbooks with a fictional example you can replace with your own tenant.
• 10 lesson PDFs with every slide of the course.
• Lifetime access to all materials and future updates.
• Active instructor support in Q&A.
• Udemy Certificate of Completion.
• Practical assignments on a realistic business case.

Workday ships two feature releases a year. Every month without a method adds more unexplained changes to your tenant.

Enroll now and start your first lesson today.