Our Approach
Your Needs, First
Everyone Welcome
Location: Your Choice
Challenge by Choice
Client List
Client Comments
Our Approach
Team-Building at UCSF creates engaging activities designed to integrate personal nature with professional objectives. Through various interactive challenges, your group members will get to know each other better as individuals while learning to work as a team. Perhaps most importantly, they'll have fun.
We help you identify specific team-building needs in your work/study place. Maybe you're incorporating new employees with established staff. Or reigniting a team's interest in project goals. Want to start off the term with some fun? We customize enjoyable and safe indoor/outdoor activities that help your group develop, refine, and apply problem-solving, communication, and collaboration skills.
Choose from:
Icebreakers
Laughter is universal, so we play lighthearted games and spark conversational exercises in groups. You’ll relax and learn to trust each other in a comfortable setting. Icebreakers are perfect for introducing new employees, uniting a new group of students, spicing up a group retreat, or kicking off a conference.
Team Challenges
How do you get unique individuals to work together as one? Our “team challenges” test your group’s decision-making techniques and cooperation levels through fun activities like “Marble Madness”–transporting a marble over thirty feet using only pipeline sections. Follow-up group discussions reveal the lessons learned from the activity and how they apply to the work/study environment. These eye-opening team challenges strengthen planning, communication, and collaboration skills. Perfect for groups ranging in size from 8 to 50.
Competitive Events
Group members break out of their “comfort zone” with high-energy, time-limited challenges that ask them to collaborate, yet compete. Participants perform a series of activities that require multi-tasking and inventiveness. The focus of these scored activities is not on winning or losing but how the game is played. Competitive events stimulate teamwork, improve team performance, enhance support systems, and practice leadership. These events are suitable for groups ranging in size from 30 to 300.
Rock Climbing
The custom-designed rock climbing wall at the Mission Bay Community Center provides a breathtaking and uniquely San Francisco vantage point to challenge and inspire. Working in pairs (one climber, one belayer), participants learn the value of trust, self-confidence, and mastering communication. The focus is not on
The height achieved, but how members work together to make the climb.
Your Needs, First
Every event begins and ends with your input, from goals to budget. Program fees vary depending on program complexity, duration, location, and group size. Participants at all levels of physical fitness are welcome—there are no special requirements.
Everyone Welcome
Team-building at UCSF is just as convenient for our neighboring businesses as it is for UCSF campus communities. In fact, any corporation or company can enjoy our team-building programs, events, and retreats at sites such as our state-of-the-art, 700-seat conference center at Mission Bay. (Additional room rental fees will apply.)
Location: Your Choice
You can come to us (UCSF) at the following locations:
- Mission Bay Conference Center
- Koret Quad
- Laurel Heights Conference Center
- Alumnae House
We can come to you–off-campus options:
- The Presidio
- Angel Island
- Crissy Field
- Golden Gate Park
- San Francisco Zoo
- Marin Headlands
- China Camp
- Huddart Park
- Asilomar
- Masconi Center
Or, you can choose another venue that is convenient for your event.
Challenge by Choice
Our guiding principle encourages everyone to set their own bar. While asked to aim high, individuals should do so only to their personal comfort. If part, or all, of any activity feels uncomfortable, participants may step out or find another role to play. Every experience can be a learning one, even if just observing.
We’ve helped these groups. How can we help you?
Client List:
- Academic Business Officers Group
- Academic Senate Leadership
- Adobe
- Advent
- Aramark Harrison Lodging
- Associated Students of UCSF
- Blanc & Otus
- Business and Risk Management
- Center for Gender Equity
- Child and Adolescent Support Advocacy and Resource Center
- Children’s Hospital Charge Nurses
- Citywide Forensics
- Department of Bioengineering
- Department of Dermatology
- Department of General Internal Medicine
- Department of Nursing
- Development & Training
- Development and Alumni Relations
- Division of Internal Medicine
- Fellowship Program in AIDS Care Adobe
- Frank, Rimerman+Co. LLP
- General Internal Medicine
- Graduate Outreach & Postdoc Affairs
- Graduate Students Association
- Hematology & Oncology
- Immune Tolerence Network
- Lifelong Medical Care
- Masters Program in Nursing
- Medical Center Leadership
- Ob/Gyn Resident Retreat
- Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF
- Pediatric/Neonatal Critical Care Transport
- Picazo
- School of Dentistry
- School of Medicine
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy
- SFGH AIDS Program
- Temple Emanu
- UCSF Heart and Vascular Center
- UCSF Human Resources
- UCSF Work Life Resource Center
- United Behaviorial Health
“[Outdoor Programs] makes fun, friendly competition and personal challenge go a long way…”
—Quita Keller, Manager, Development & Training, UCSF Medical Center
“The feedback we have received from the attendees has validated our planning efforts…an excellent all-round experience.”
—Tomi Ryba, COO, UCSF Medical Center
“As a new team coming together it was exactly what we needed.”
—Bruce Gorton, General Manager, Aramark Harrison Lodging
“In a friendly, non-work environment…this is a tremendous tool for understanding how to operate more effectively as a team.”
—Don Diettinger, Manager, Labor/Employee Relations
UCSF Outdoor Programs is part of the Campus Life Services, Fitness & Recreation family at UCSF. For over 30 years we have supported UCSF and corporate organizations by providing team-building events at retreats, meetings, and conferences. For more information, or to book your team-building experience:
phone: 415.502.2122
e-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
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