This is a leadership style that engages the followers by enabling them to tap into their self-interest, but in a manner that is more fulfilling and productive for the organization to deliver outstanding performance. Dr. Raed El Omari, a prominent Jordan business and insurance executive discusses that leadership development solely is transformative in addressing the challenges posed by the digital age. The accelerated technological application affects almost every industry, and leaders need to learn strategies to advance their companies.
The Essence of Transformational Leadership
At its core, transformational leadership involves four key components: The four leadership styles include: · Forming the ideal, charismatic encouragement, challenging creative thinking, and DDP (direct, delegate, and praise) for personal development. Dr. Raed El Omari affirms that in Jordan and the world, the leaders who have endowed these principles are the leaders of transformation. In addition, they contribute to the construction of an organizational culture based on trust, enthusiasm, and creativity. These leaders actively promote the firm’s well-defined vision and authentic culture while embracing technology disruption.
The Role of Transformational Leadership in Jordan
About Jordan, the theory of transformational leadership is crucial for maintaining and furthering the processes of economic development. In his capacity as a renowned Jordanian business executive, Dr. Raed El Omari also supports the idea that Jordan has to focus on digitalization to achieve the goals outlined by the Jordan Vision 2025 strategy. By embracing progressive leadership, political authorities in Jordan can promote an innovative capacity, upgrade available public solutions, and elevate general competitiveness. In this regard, the view of El Omari has been productive for Jordan’s business society to transform into the digital economy and build up the knowledge-based economy.
Overcoming Challenges
Digitalization as a phenomenon entails numerous advantages, though it has numerous disadvantages like cybersecurity threats, the newly emerged digital gap between different societies, and non-acceptance of change. According to Dr. Raed El Omari, such changes must be met by transnational leaders through learning change and association. Leaders should ensure that there is cyber security put in place to check on any cyber threats, advance digital awareness, and embrace the change that is coming. In doing so they can avoid negative consequences that may result from digital transformation and guarantee that any engagement in the process will be positive.
Organizational transformation is now a phenomenon that cannot be avoided in the era of digital breakthroughs; thus, it is helpful to strive for the concepts of transformational leadership to reach their ultimate potential. According to the author of the book ‘Insuring Tomorrow’, Dr. Raed El Omari, the advances explored in the book rely on inspiring leadership to spur change in the digital age. In particular, for Jordan and the international community at large, it is possible to embrace transformative leadership approaches hence gaining higher innovation, competitive ability, and robustness due to the dynamic changes in the digitized society. The digital age is not a distant reality, but rather a future that is on the horizon, and leaders such as Raed El Omari will play a critical role in realizing this vision for the future.
