It this year follows past years, the 1st couple of days will be only slightly heavier than normal (with my helper) and I will have him/her for 2-3 hours. The 1st 2 days, I like to have the helper do all the stops with me going with and helping them master the board. There is nothing worse than dropping a helper off with a board, cart and 8 stops, coming back 20 minutes later and find them stuck at the 1st place because they could not navigate the board.
I had the same helper for a couple of years, that guy could not figure the board at all. I used it, prerecorded all his stops and got signatures with 'left at'. I only did it in the DT business area, I sheeted the resi stops on his board and did all the keying.