Health Care Team Building & Leadership Programs, Trainings, Workshops, Retreats

Healthcare Programs

Positive Adventures is committed to creating a customized and unique program that addresses the essential needs of your team. Prior to each program, our facilitators have a face to face meeting with our clients, create a client needs assessment, and design a program that will meet your goals.

Examples of some department goals are listed below:

Enhance and develop interpersonal relationship skills
Provide useful communication, voting, and leadership tools to be integrated as common language
Create a sense of team and community ownership within the group to make changes that will support the front line staff of the hospital
Developing and implementing effective communication strategies and techniques to be used with preceptees, other preceptors, and hospital staff as a whole
Creating feedback opportunities where practice in giving and receiving constructive feedback can be viewed and strengthened
Empowering program participants with multiple conflict resolution techniques to be used in a variety of situational experiences
Actively engage with the group to think critically and initiate problem solving skills

Positive Adventures Program Menu

Positive Adventures has partnered with local San Diego healthcare facilities to provide the following programs:

New Nurse Orientation Trainings
Preceptor Workshops
Leadership Council Development
Charge Nurse Leadership Retreats
Creative Customer Service Training
Customized Department Development Programs

Program Options

½ Day Trainings
Full Day Trainings
Two Part Trainings
Monthly Trainings
Quarterly Trainings
Annual Retreats

EXPERIENTIAL TRAININGS

We base our trainings on Kolb’s experiential education cycle:

Concrete Experience: Engaging, interactive, problem solving initiatives.

Reflective Observation: Using group discussion and questioning, we draw out reflection and discussion.

Abstract Conceptualization: Through a neutral environment or event, we use transference from activity to hospital setting. Ex: "How did your communication during this activity relate to communication in the hospital?"

Active Experimentation: Teaching new skills to be used in the hospital back at work.

"Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand."
-Confucius

FOCUSED INITIATIVES

Penny Drop

This activity will provide members with an opportunity to see the need for goal setting, hearing all viewpoints of team members, and creating a consensus tool.

Zoom

This activity focuses on patience and group communication, and encourages leaders to take charge and demonstrate their management skills to the team.

Care Team Presents

This activity focuses on effective interpersonal communication, making a plan, seeing the big picture, delegation of tasks, and the interchange of vital information. Through time constraints, the fast-paced hospital is simulated and mistakes may happen.

Helium Stick

This gentle activity generates frustration with others and self, conflict, and blaming. With awareness, this transformational experience allows alternative behaviors to arise.

Testimonials

"Positive Adventures is a very professional, challenging & fun group experience. You will learn about yourself and your group/team."
"The name Positive Adventures is very appropriate; positive but not fake feely, adventurous and fun."
"Excellent! Thank you! Best experience and truly an A+."
"It was a great, non-intrusive way of bringing together the group and making everyone feel comfortable."
"I really appreciated the combined use of handouts, demonstrations, and integration of hospital specific examples."
- Rady Professional Leadership Council Programs

"Positive Adventures provided me with some excellent tools for improving my leadership style, communicating, and ultimately my results as a leader."
"This is the second time I have worked with you and I have learned something very valuable about myself each time."
"A great way to kick off our retreat, this was an energizing and positive experience;
great to see all staff engaged and learning from each other."
- Rady Respiratory Therapy Charges Programs

"I will never look at legos the same thanks to you guys! Great job at making us look at our communication skills."
"This group is well prepared, engaging, and able to assimilate their work with our job! Fun, interactive and relative!"
- Rady Preceptors Programs

Interested? We can custom design your program to suit any goal, location or budget. Click below to get started!

Testimonails

Thank you very much for the great teambuilding exercises you led us through during our annual retreat. Your infectious enthusiasm and great leadership abilities always make for such a dynamic learning and teambuilding experience, and is most appreciated!!...
~Blair P. Stephenson
Just a note to say thanks again for all your help at the July NACE bike building program at the zoo. It’s always a pleasure to work with you and you were a tremendous asset that night ensuring a smooth event with the limited time we had available. The program was a major success and a great time was had by all!...
~Mike
Ryan,
This letter comes to you with great appreciation for the day we spent with you and your staff. The program was clearly customized to meet the needs of our team and our goals were met...
~Damon Whittle
It was a great and informative meeting. It kept us engaged but also encouraged us to participate. When you get individuals involve, they benefit so much more from the meeting. In addition, it allowed us to make a youngster very happy with a new bike! Thanks for another great meeting.
~Randy Carmical
My entire organization and I felt very safe and were thoroughly impressed with Positive Adventures’ knowledge and professionalism. The staff ensured safety as a top priority and was always courteous with everyone they dealt with. Moreover, we had a lot of fun and would definitely recommend Positive Adventures to anyone.
~Vince Golangco
This was one of the best days I have ever had (the first being the birth of my daughter).
~Anonymous
The experience was beyond words.
~Anonymous
The experience truly left me feeling a great deal of respect and admiration for my team.
~Anonymous
Positive Adventures brought our team together in unique, exciting ways that were fun yet informative and educational.
~Anonymous
A great experience to provide to a group that needs to become more comfortable with each other. A fun and engaging experience. Great Facilitators!
~Anonymous
This was an insightful day. Each exercise allowed me to appreciate my teammates’ strengths in leadership.
~Anonymous
It was very helpful to see people let their guards down and be themselves.
~Anonymous
I learned when to be quiet and let another take the lead.
~Anonymous
Ryan, You, Jared and Matt were amazing!! Thank you so much for your generosity and energy and spreading so much fun at our holiday party! I still can't believe you do what you do, and you do it so well! Everyone (patients, staff) is talking about you and the next time we can bask in your fabulous spirit! Thank you so much, and please pass on a big thanks to your crew!
~Anonymous
It’s Barry, I will always remember LNT, SHAZBAT. You made this trip incredibly fun. I hope you have success being an outdoorsman.
~Barry
Ryan: I know that we had problems at the beginning of the session, but I glad we got along during the trip and I’m really happy I’m having the chance to get to know you better, because I’m learning tons of things from you, and I think we are building and creating a friendship. I know next session is gonna be great and that you are gonna do a great job!
Angela Pulido
Ryan Ryan Ryan…
If you didn’t come on this trip, I don’t know what I would have done. Thanks for everything.
Laran
Ryan,
I’m sooooo grateful I had you this session. You were a blast to be around and our group would have been so lost without you. You kept me motivated and inspired.
Becca
I really appreciate all of the work and experience you did and brought with you. I learned also and you are a great leader and role model. Now I feel comfortable dancing because I always know a guy will be dancing wilder than me.
Carl
Keep free styling you diggler! Thanks for being an awesome counselor
Adam
Thank you so much for you wise words. You are very smart and I have learned a lot from you this trip thank you
Michael Fredman
Thanks for being so fun.
Micky
Keep up the free styling and everything else you do
Sara

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