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Succession Planning Talent Pool Approval
Purpose:
This blog deals with the approvals on the creation of Succession Planning Talent Pools.
Talent Pool:
Talent Pools offer an alternative approach to succession planning by allowing you to group successors. They can also be used to group your talent for non-succession-related needs like development plans, rotation programs, or high-potential pools.
Talent Pools for Succession Planning:
You can associate talent pools with positions through their underlying roles. Talent pools associated with a role are automatically assigned to any positions based on that role. When you look at the detailed succession plan of a position, either from the Succession Org Chart or the Position Tile view, any associated talent pools are listed on the position card. You can assign both individual employees as successors as well as talent pools to a position. A common practice is to nominate individual, named successors to top-level positions and to associate talent pools to lower-level positions.
Talent Pool Page
When backtracked, realized that as Talent Pool is an MDF object, approval workflow is much more possible.
Metadata Framework: What is it?
The Metadata Framework (MDF) is a generic platform, which allows you to define your objects, configure object relationships, and create rules and workflows.
Prerequisites:
- You need to enable the following: Role-Based Permissions
Provisioning Settings
- Generic Objects – MDF
Generic Objects – MDF
- User Interface v12
User Interface v12
- Create Dynamic Group
- Create Dynamic Role
- Create Workflow
- Link Workflow with Talent Pool object
- Create Dynamic Group:
You can follow the below steps to Create the Dynamic Group in SAP SuccessFactors:
Home>Admin Center>Employee File>Manage Workflow groups
- Create New Group>Enter all required information
Dynamic Group
- Create Dynamic Role:
You can follow the below steps to Create the Dynamic Role in SAP SuccessFactors:
Home>Admin Center>Employee File>Manage Organization, Pay, and Job Structures
Dynamic Role
- Enter all required information and save it.
- Create Workflow:
You can follow the below steps to Create Workflow in SAP SuccessFactors:
Admin Center>Employee Files>Manage Organization, Pay, and Job structure.
Create Workflow
- Enter all the required information in the workflow
Workflow
- Link Workflow with Talent Pool Object:
Once the Workflow is created using the above steps, as part of the next step we need to link this object to the Talent Pool Object under Configure Object Definition.
You can follow the below steps to link workflow with Talent Pool Object in SAP SuccessFactors:
Admin center>Company Settings>Configure Object Definitions>Select Object Definition>Select Talent Pool
Talent Pool Object
Edit the “Talent Pool” object to select the workflow under the “Workflow Routing” field and save the object.
Talent Pool Object
Talent Pool Object
Note: Select Pending Routing as yes if you do not want to visible talent pools under the talent pool tab before approval.
Talent Pool Object
End User Actions
- Create talent Pool
- Approve or decline talent Pool creation
- Create a Talent Pool:
Home>Succession>Talent Pool
Talent Pool Page
- Create Talent Pool
End-User can follow the below steps to create a new talent pool.
Home>Succession>Talent Pool>+ Icon
Talent Pool Creation Pop-Up
Enter All information and hit the “Save” button.
Once saved, the system will trigger the workflow, and the user can provide the comments for the approver and click on the “Confirm” button.
Talent Pool Workflow
Workflow Pending Status
- Approve or Decline Talent Pool
Login as Approve and access the Approval request on the home page tile.
Approve Request Tile-Home Page
Click on the “Approval request tile” to access the workflow request.
Workflow Request
Click on “Talent Pool” to access more information about the created talent pool or to provide comments while approving and declining the request.
View/Approve Request Page
Use the “Send Back” button to decline the request.
Use the “Approve” button to approve the request.
Once the request is approved by the Approve, Succession Planner can see the “Talent Pool” in the Succession>Talent Pool tab.
Talent Pool Page
References:
Images are taken from SAP SuccessFactors Sales Demo with Dummy Data.
SAP KBA: https://userapps.support.sap.com/sap/support/knowledge/en/2838313
MDF Guide: https://help.sap.com/doc/067c84408d824c7382637fc264e11310/2211/en-US/SF_IMP_MDF.pdf
SAP SuccessFactors Succession Management Implementation Guide.
Please feel free to provide your feedback or thoughts in the comments.
Insighful blog Sachin Pachauri .
1. From my Recuiting lens, this Talent Pool is different from Recruiting module Talent pool . Isn't it ?
There's no connection between these two pool right ?
2. Can email notifications be trigered for such approvals ?
3. Can an external user be added to this talent pool ? Example: Contingent worker from Fieldglass
integrated with SF ?
Regards,
Niladri
Niladri Bihari Nayak
1- Yes, Succession talent pool is different from RCM Talent Pool.
2- Yes, We can build email notification for workflow under EC
3- I believe this can be done using CPI.