The document discusses becoming a productive professional. It notes that the Nigerian budget prioritizes salaries over infrastructure spending. As a result, only those who can provide solutions to problems will have jobs. It advises readers to shift their paradigm from just getting a job to providing solutions. It provides five tips for becoming a productive professional: 1) network with valuable people, 2) approach life differently through planning and forward thinking, 3) become known for something through skill mastery, 4) confront your fears by trying new things, and 5) be willing to work for free to gain experience. The document encourages readers to pursue their own ideas by starting their own business rather than saying they lack ideas.

1. The roduct
rofessional
RCCG, Celebration Arena
(Youth Church)
Iriobe Ofunre C.

2. Where we are now

3. THE NIGERIAN BUDGET
Expenses in the Economy
Capital Exp
Recurrent Exp
Mainly
Salaries
N4.28tn
Infrastructure
N1.8tn

4. Implication of the Budget
Less
Infrastructure
High cost
of doing
Business/
Laying-off
employees
GOVERNMENT
COMPANIES
More
Salaries

5. Implication for You
Only the productive ones –
Those who can provide
SOLUTIONS to our Problems
WILL HAVE A JOB!

6. What Should I do?
We don’t use the Aquarium
mentality
To swim in the big Ocean
YOU NEED
A
PARADIGM SHIFT

7. 2 Tim 2:15
• Favour doesn’t come in you having a job, it comes
in you providing a solution.
• Many of us need to move away from the mentality
of getting a job to a mentality of providing a
solution.
Favour or Labour Market?

8. Who is a Productive Professional?
• Being a Productive Professional isn’t just about your
age, when you graduated, your qualifications or how
many professional bodies you belong to.
• It has everything to do with what you have to offer-
having an edge over others

9. So ask yourself
Have I prepared myself enough to
prove to the world that I am
competent to solve a problem
with ALL my qualifications?
How can I make this shift to being
a productive professional?

10. 1. Network with people of value –
Ruth 1:16; Dan 8:1
– Enjoy meeting people and reading books, you
never know who/what will help your career.
– Place a value on your relationships, what
cannot increase you, will decrease you.
– Re-evaluate and rebuild relationships
– Focus on the future of every network

11. 2. Approach life differently – 1 Kings 3
–Plan your life ahead
–Be forward thinking in your decisions
–Be solution oriented, Don’t wait for a job, start
looking for solutions to provide
–Think in terms of the value you are offering -
Judge yourself by the results you produce, not
how busy you have been

12. 3. Be known for Something
– Exo. 35:14
–Don’t be everywhere at the same time
–When God has committed something into
your hand, stay with it until it works
–Strive for skill mastery

13. 4. Always step out and confront your
fears – Esth 4:14
–Nothing works until you decide to try
–Don’t wait for something to happen, make it
happen
–Never ever give up on what you believe in

14. 5. Learn to work for free
–Never allow money to drive you
–If no one wants to pay for your experience,
offer it for free.

15. Why you need to consider
being on your own
Never say you don’t have ideas. We all have, you
probably have not worked for one

16. Q & A