Kearney has been satisfied by the response of his players in the days after labelling their second-half performance in Sunday's six-tries-to-two defeat by Gold Coast as "soft".
Throughout an inconsistent campaign that's seen them lose four of their last five games, the Auckland outfit have generally managed to bounce back well after disappointing performances.
They face a big challenge in overturning the Dragons, who are similarly desperate after also losing three of their past four games, at a ground where the Warriors have gone winless in 10 previous visits.
The Warriors remain in eighth spot on the NRL ladder with the Dragons sitting fourth, five weeks out from the playoffs.
"Things have gone pretty well," Kearney said.
"We obviously addressed last week's performance which we were all disappointed with on Monday with our review process.
"They've done a pretty good job of [responding well] most of the year. That's got to start by, one, how you review the performance — and there was some honesty there — and obviously to how you train. And today there was some real good focus, real good energy at training."
The Warriors will today travel south to Wollongong after spending the early part of the week at the same isolated Kingscliff resort that the NSW Blues adopted as their home under former coach Laurie Daley during last year's State of Origin series.
Kearney believes the side will benefit from not having travel back and forth across the Tasman this week and felt the time together would help the players' preparation.
"When you're in close quarters together, it does give you an opportunity to bring you tighter. Off the back of Sunday's performance, it was probably even more important that we stayed together and worked our way through that."
