I love the concept of longer staff training!
Our council is hosting staff training differently this year. All staff from the three camps will be together for 5 (or so) days to go over all of the basics that everyone has to cover. Each camp will then hold another week of staff training for its' own staff to cover in more detail some of the stuff from the first week and camp specific stuff. We did it this way last year and it seemed to work well. It can be tricky to not bore folks the second week. I have some fun tricks up my sleeve to keep folks awake and on their toes....learning by doing and playing!
