[iamthemonster]

Yes - I'm a senior member of my team too (to the extent that I've previously been the team lead of similar teams) and it's so freeing to be able to:

1. Give plenty of credit to the juniors when they do good work, even if they were reliant on support, with no need to take credit myself

2. Give up some time working on my own objectives to coach the juniors, even though there's no cost code to book the time to and nobody asks me to do it

3. Easily say, with zero guilt: "no sorry that can't be done in 2 weeks, that's a 6 week job" or "sure I can do my part of this job but I'm going to need you to commit XYZ other resources if you want it to be a success"

4. Interpret the rules in the way I think is best for the organisation, not trying to please the person with the most pedantic interpretation

5. I can produce convincing explanations of how my work performance is delivering value to the organisation (whereas juniors can sometimes work their arse off and get no recognition for it)

I'm also a middle aged white man which seems to confer a lot of unearned trust, but combined with my professional experience I seriously think I have it easier than the juniors in so many ways, and it's my responsibility to give back a bit.

[matwood]

> Give plenty of credit to the juniors when they do good work, even if they were reliant on support, with no need to take credit myself

This is one of the most effective ways to lead because it builds goodwill and trust on the team. It also takes almost nothing away from you because as the senior/leader you will get default credit for most everything. It's always odd to me more people don't realize this.

[brookst]

I want to agree but I’ve observed a contrary pattern a few times: when higher levels of management don’t get this principle, and are themselves poor leaders and role models, they can take this at face value and believe that the juniors get all the credit and local leadership is contributing nothing.

Soft skills need to be valued from above in order to be workable strategies in the trenches. And often / usually that’s how it works.. but not always.

[eru]

Even more so: as a senior, if you don't give extensive credit to the juniors, people will assume that you have some reasons to be insecure. So it's worse for your status.

[NetOpWibby]

You might need to a new username, you are the good guy.

[blueflow]

I thought this was social competence.

[3dsnano]

yes, and we all need a good reminder every once in a while of how we can act with humility and integrity!