One thing I started as a team lead is telling all my Jr and Mid level engineers to reach out to me for help if they need it, and that I would always be happy to

One thing I started as a team lead is telling all my Jr and Mid level engineers to reach out to me for help if they need it, and that I would always be happy to get on a call with them. I had a pretty small team so this was easily manageable. At first I wouldn't get any folks reaching out for help, but eventually they all got comfortable with calling/messaging me if they had an issue. I think a bit part of this is how you see yourself on the team. I gave myself the personal title: "Specialist and Support Person". On any given day I really only have two tasks: * Work on "specialist" stuff within the app, stuff that is way over the heads of any of the Jr's or Mid level devs. * Provide Support on everything else. Since my engineers are the ones pumping out most of the code, the biggest part is making sure they are supported in every way imaginable. There are other responsibilities obviously, but within the context of "day to day" on the team, I found aligning myself with those responsibilities really helped my team.