UMU Launches Harassment Training Package for Managers

Yoomu Technology Japan Inc. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Representative Director: Shuuhei Matsuda), which operates the AI-powered learning platform "UMU" to support performance improvement, will begin offering a "Harassment Training Package" for corporate managers on July 1, 2026.

This package is a training program that combines group training, which redefines the essence of harassment prevention as daily relationships, with "AI Management Dojo," a dialogue training that can be practiced safely and repeatedly with an AI subordinate. It aims to go beyond mere knowledge input and support managers in overcoming their anxieties about instruction and facing their subordinates with confidence.

Development Background: The New Challenge of "Afraid of Harassment, Unable to Instruct"

Preventing workplace harassment is now a common responsibility for all companies. Under the so-called Power Harassment Prevention Act (Act on Comprehensive Promotion of Labor Measures, Stability of Employment, and Enhancement of Vocational Life for Workers), measures to prevent power harassment have been mandatory for large companies since June 2020 and for all companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises, since April 2022, and public scrutiny is increasing year by year.

While these developments are essential for protecting workers, they have brought new difficulties to frontline managers. Power harassment tends to occur in daily interactions such as instructions and guidance from superiors to subordinates, and the boundary is difficult to draw clearly. The same words can be perceived very differently depending on the person and the situation. As a result, many managers hesitate to provide necessary guidance.

If instruction is withheld, subordinates lose opportunities for growth, and the organization's growth potential itself can be undermined. On the other hand, managers themselves are caught between the responsibility to "nurture subordinates" and the anxiety that "instruction might be perceived as harassment," leading to burnout.

Furthermore, the learning environment exacerbates this problem. A survey of 400 managers conducted by our company in March 2026 (Note 1) revealed that only 7.0% felt that "almost all content" of management training provided by their companies was "useful in practical work." Only 16.5% of managers always practice or simulate before engaging in difficult conversations, and approximately 80% responded that they "have experience in mishandling responses to subordinates due to lack of adequate preparation before conversations." In reality, traditional management training that uniformly inputs knowledge does not easily resolve the anxiety about how to interact with subordinates in the field.

We developed this package to create an environment where managers can nurture their subordinates with peace of mind and contribute to improving corporate performance.

Overview of the Harassment Training Package

This package addresses the challenge that simply knowing the definition and rules of harassment does not lead to appropriate instruction in the workplace. It aims to help managers understand the mechanisms by which harassment occurs and to provide necessary guidance and feedback to subordinates without damaging trust.

To achieve this, it consists of the following three elements:

- Understanding the Essence of Harassment (Group Training)

Whether harassment is recognized or not is determined not only by the content of words and actions but also by how they are perceived based on the relationships built through daily interactions. The same feedback, if trust has been established, can be received as strict but accurate advice, while if the relationship is weak, it may be perceived as harassment. In this training, participants will relearn the essence of harassment from the perspective of relationships.

- Designing Daily Communication Habits (Group Training)

Beyond understanding the essence, participants will acquire concrete interaction methods for building trust through exercises, such as listening, questioning, empathizing, and promoting action. These will be translated into actions that can be immediately implemented in the field, such as one-on-one meetings and daily check-ins. Group training can be conducted either online or in person.

- Repeated Practice with AI (AI Management Dojo)

This package includes "AI Management Dojo," a dialogue training partner for managers. Participants will role-play scenarios with potential harassment risks with an AI subordinate and receive personalized feedback on their weaknesses. By practicing repeatedly with scenarios tailored to individual challenges before and after group training, and by meeting a certain standard of objective evaluation by AI, learning is steadily translated into action.

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【Differences from Traditional Harassment Training】

Traditional management training has had the challenge of being limited to lectures and one-off role-playing on the day, making it difficult to connect knowledge to actions in the workplace. This package is designed as a continuous process of understanding the essence of harassment, designing interactions with subordinates, and repeated practice with AI, ensuring that it's not just "training and done."

Furthermore, AI dialogue practice visualizes skill levels. It allows organizations to understand who practiced how and where the challenges lie, enabling them to take the next steps based on data. This simultaneously contributes to resolving the anxieties of individual managers and improving the overall quality of organizational management.

Through the provision of this training package, we aim to enable managers to face their subordinates with confidence and guide them correctly, rather than being overly fearful of harassment and becoming hesitant. We will support the creation of organizations where superiors and subordinates are connected by trust and can grow together with peace of mind, moving beyond harassment prevention as merely a regulatory compliance measure.

▼ For details and inquiries about "AI Management Dojo," click here:

https://www.umu.co/product/ai-management-dojo

Note 1: Yoomu Technology Japan Inc. "[Management Practices Survey in the AI Era] Approximately 80% of Managers Have Experienced 'Failure' Due to Lack of Dialogue Preparation" (Announced April 14, 2026)

https://www.umu.co/info/ai-management-skills-research-2026/

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About UMU

UMU was born in Silicon Valley in 2014 and is now a global AI solutions company with over 1 million companies in 203 countries and regions, and over 28,000 companies in Japan. Centered around the AI-powered online learning platform "UMU," it supports the cultivation of a learning culture and performance improvement in companies and organizations in the AI era by offering programs such as the academically grounded practical AI literacy learning program "UMU AILIT" and the sales enablement solution "UMU AIロープレ."

By enabling employees to learn autonomously, acquire and utilize AI literacy, and thereby improve work efficiency, it creates more time and opportunities to focus on creative and strategic tasks. This contributes to the maximum utilization of a company's human capital and accelerated growth. Service site: https://www.umu.co

Company Profile of Yoomu Technology Japan Inc.

Name: Yoomu Technology Japan Inc.

Headquarters: JR Shinjuku Miraina Tower 18F, 4-1-6 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-0022

Representative: Shuuhei Matsuda, Representative Director

Established: February 9, 2018

Business Activities: Sales of educational learning platforms utilizing internet technology

URL: https://www.umu.co