Welcome, WashU managers! Find resources, announcements, training and support to help you lead and cultivate an enriching employee experience.
Welcome New Managers!
WashU Manager Orientation
Attend orientation training within your first 90 days as a newly hired or promoted manager. Then, you can attend Employee Relations’ monthly Manager 101 series.
Workday’s Manager Training Guide
Manager-specific step-by-step tutorials, reference guides and eLearnings to familiarize yourself with Workday, WashU’s human resources and financial administration system.
Getting started in Workday for Managers
Find guides and resources to help navigate employees who are assigned the Workday role of Manager.
Onboarding New Employees
Access templates, checklists and tools to provide support for your employees first 90 days.
Refer your new hire to the Welcome to WashU Hub.
Announcements
FY26 Staff Recognition Program Update
New staff leadership & development programming launches summer 2025
The Manager’s Resource
Management Courses
Hiring Resources
Search & Interviewing
- Recruitment contacts
- Primary Recruiters and Recruiting Assistants by Job Family (PDF)
- Acceptable and unacceptable interview questions (PDF)
- Behavioral-based interview questions (PDF)
- Sample reference check form (PDF)
- Benefits recruiting guide (PDF)
- Employee benefit cost comparison (XLS)
- Sample total pay statement staff (PDF)
- Sample total pay statement faculty (PDF)
- Recruiting in Workday reference guide
Accessibility
Executive Search Services
WashU’s executive search services team supports search committees by bringing executive search industry best practices to high-level/high impact openings assuring a well-qualified diverse slate of candidates. With more than 50 years of combined health care and academic search experience, the team has previously served in leadership roles for leading executive search firms before establishing the in-house service more than 10 years ago.
Contact Mark Prosperi
Executive Director of Talent Management and Executive Search
Leadership Tools
Performance Feedback
- Performance evaluation forms
- Personnel review justification form (PDF)
- How to provide effective feedback (PDF)
Compensation Tools
- Compensation program objectives
- Writing a job description
- Job description template (DOC)
- Research job description instructions (PDF)
- Bonus authorization form (DOC)
- Payroll deadlines & timeline
- Additional compensation resources
Employee Recognition
Organization Development Team
WashU’s highly experienced Organization Development team is dedicated to assessing, researching, designing, delivering, and evaluating support for WashU leadership. We work on strategic planning design and implementation, leadership coaching and development, individual and team assessments, team culture change, change management and performance management. Find resources below.
Contact Organization Development
Additional Supervisor Resources:
- Managing During Uncertain Times
- 360 feedback FAQs (DOC)
- 7 steps to develop a position back-up plan (PDF)
- Engage/stay interviews (PDF)
- Re-recruiting existing employees resources and tools for leaders (PDF)
- Skip-level reviews (PDF)
- Working remotely playbook; Strategies, tips and tools (PDF)
- Leadership coaching FAQs (PDF)
- Successful coaching strategies (PDF)
Your Role as a Leader – Taking Care of Your Employees
Employee Policies and Procedures
For Compensation Questions, please contact Tom Kraft.
For Employee Relations questions, please contact EmployeeRelations@wustl.edu.