JMAM

What It Is

JMAM, the JMA Management Center Inc. (日本能率協会マネジメントセンター), is a Japanese human resources development company, and this entry covers its video training materials (映像教材・研修教材). The product is built for corporate training departments in Japan that run their own courses: JMAM sells ready-made training videos, packaged with lesson guides and worksheets, that in-house instructors can drop into a session, and it produces custom training videos to order. The site is in Japanese, and so are the materials.

The video page frames the offer as support for bringing training in-house (研修内製化を支援する). JMAM says it combines the know-how built up in its training business with video technology to develop effective training video content, and that its materials are used in in-house training and workshops to make employee education more efficient. Video materials sit beside the company's other services: instructor-led training, assessments, e-learning, correspondence courses, public seminars and consulting.

The Ready-Made Video Library

The DVD materials and training support tools are the library half of the product. The page says they were developed by combining know-how from JMAM's instructor dispatch business with video technology, and that JMAM's own instructors use these videos in the corporate training they deliver. That is the selling point: the materials were designed from an instructor's point of view, as videos, lesson plans and exercise sheets that can be used in training straight away.

JMAM suggests two ways to use them: as one unit in a training program of a day to several days, or as the main exercise in a short session of about two hours. Three design features are listed: the materials put the emphasis on discussion after viewing (映像視聴後の"話し合い"に重点), the scenarios scatter realistic problems close to everyday work, and the structure prompts participants to think for themselves.

The catalog is grouped into management and level-based training, production management and workplace improvement, equipment maintenance and management, and training support tools. Examples from the page show how specific it gets:

• New employee basic behavior series: a "work basics" volume on the meaning of work, communication basics and the right way to carry out tasks, and a business manners volume.
• HR evaluation and staff development series: drama-based titles in which managers watch a protagonist and practice evaluating or coaching, including one on giving feedback in a management-by-objectives appraisal interview, modeled on a section chief at an electronics retailer.
• Problem-finding series (3 volumes): spotting muri, muda and mura (overburden, waste and unevenness) in mass assembly, mass machining and individual production workplaces.
• Work sampling series (2 volumes) and a rating training series (7 volumes) for industrial engineering skills.
• Production site improvement basics (6 volumes): from the basic mechanics of production through time study, work sampling, process analysis, line work analysis and man-machine analysis.
• Equipment total inspection series (10 volumes): covering oil and grease lubrication, cutting fluid, hydraulic, pneumatic, drive and transmission, electrical control systems, and fasteners and the equipment body.
• Cleaning and inspection series (3 volumes) and a video on TOC, the theory of constraints.

Physical tools sit beside the videos: a fixed-point photography chart for tracking 5S and safety improvements (six locations, up to four stages each), a pinboard exercise for learning work methods, and labels in four types for brainstorming and planning workshops.

Lesson Guides and Worksheets

What makes this more than a video catalog is the instructor kit. For in-house instructors, JMAM provides a lesson guide for each video set that lays out, step by step, the estimated time, what to do, which tools to use and points to watch. The page says this lets a company run training at a consistent quality, and that when several in-house instructors share a program, the guide becomes a common reference. Worksheets give participants a framework for their thinking, let them discuss what they wrote with each other, and let the instructor collect them to check understanding. The page notes that some video materials do not come with these tools, and that customers can adapt the worksheets to their own company.

Custom Video Production

The second half of the product is original video production. JMAM offers planning, casting of instructors and performers, filming, editing and distribution as a one-stop service, and says it builds its 40+ years of training know-how into the videos. It also ties the video to the wider training plan, recommending development approaches and training lineups that fit the customer's issue.

Production formats listed include live streaming of training sessions, recorded lectures, animation, dramatized reenactments and live-action video. Four support examples are given: a company whose annual management training had gone stale switched to pre-training input videos combined with discussion-focused classroom sessions; a manufacturer turned person-dependent techniques from paper manuals into video, adding subtitles and multilingual audio to reach more learners; a company produced videos on customer harassment, covering the basics and the company's stance, alongside its policy work; and a company built DE&I input videos, a top-management message and case videos to shift its culture.

Around the Library

JMAM's other services show where the video materials fit. Its instructor-led training page cites more than 6,000 training days delivered a year, says training can start in as little as one month, and puts the ideal classroom size at around 20 to 30 participants. Its assessment tools, backed by what the page calls 30+ years of experience, include RoundReview, a 360-degree feedback tool built on 10 competencies drawn from high-performing managers, NAVI360 for mid-level staff and NAVI360 Basic for new employees, the semi-custom GrowPoint360, the V-CAT and Q-DOG aptitude tests, and an AI recorded-interview evaluation system called QAmach. The assessment FAQ offers a free trial before contract for most tools. An e-learning column describes JMAM's eラーニングライブラリ® (e-Learning Library), a flat-rate annual subscription for compliance, harassment and information security training, and says the company has supported corporate training for about 80 years.

Pricing

No prices appear on the video page. The training FAQ says costs vary by program content, hours and number of participants, and that JMAM quotes an estimate after hearing the customer's requirements; consultations are free. The site offers an inquiry form, phone consultation and free downloadable materials.

Who It Suits

The video materials suit a Japanese company with its own training staff that wants proven content without hiring an outside instructor every time: an HR team running new-hire onboarding, a manager training program on appraisals and coaching, or, especially, a manufacturer training production and maintenance staff. The depth of the manufacturing titles, from work sampling and rating training to a ten-volume equipment inspection series, is unusual among training libraries. The lesson guides make it workable for teams where several people deliver the same course.

It is not a self-serve video subscription for individual learners, and it is not for teams that train in English: the materials and the site are Japanese. Buyers who want a list price will need to contact JMAM for a quote.