The camp I work with brings in their seasonal Directors/Admin staff in as early as a month before staff training for the Day Camp and Over Night Director. Staff like the Waterfront, LIT, and CIT Director come in about 2 weeks before staff training.
This gives the staff allot of time to plan and bond together. It make them come across as a much more gelled together team to the rest of the staff. This also made for one of the best planed out summers I have ever seen. With the least amount of issues and stress threw out the summer of any year I have worked at a camp.
