• Deconstructing the Assessment Process: A step-by-step breakdown of the entire RICS qualification journey, clarifying eligibility routes, key milestones, online portal navigation, and formal submission windows.

• Selecting the Right Pathway & Competencies: How to choose the most viable pathway for your role and select a balanced mix of core and optional competencies that reflect genuine workloads rather than wishful thinking.

• Mapping Public Sector Casework from Day One: How to identify high-value experience within day-to-day activities.

• Mastering the Competency Levels: Clear definitions and practical examples showing the exact progression from Level 1 (knowledge), through Level 2 (application), to Level 3 (reasoned advice and client recommendations).

• Diary Logging & Best Practice: Practical systems for logging daily work, tracking relevant CPD hours, and writing concise diary entries that make drafting the final submission straightforward rather than stressful.

• Maximising Supervisor & Counsellor Relationships: How to prepare for structured quarterly review meetings, set clear six-month objectives, and proactively flag and resolve experience gaps early.

• Setting a Bulletproof Timeline: Building a realistic, milestone-driven study and drafting schedule to avoid last-minute panic and ensure you hit your target assessment sitting with confidence.

  Duration: 2 Hours

• Cracking the Competency Code: Understanding the exact linguistic difference between Level 1 (knowledge), Level 2 (doing), and Level 3 (advising) in written form.

• The "I" Rule: Eliminating collective passive phrasing ("we assisted with", "the council agreed") and replacing it with direct, accountable evidence of your personal work.

• Mapping Day-to-Day Work: Translating your daily property tasks—lease renewals, dilapidations, rent reviews, asset valuations, and site disposals—into punchy competency evidence.

• Managing Word Count Discipline: Practical editing drills to condense 400-word explanations down to 150-word high-impact statements that still convey technical rigor.

• Mandatory Competency Drafting: Evidencing health and safety, client care, accounting principles, and sustainability using everyday public sector procedures.

• Peer Review & Live Red-Penning: Hands-on editing of draft statements with real-time feedback on clarity, structure, and assessor expectations.

  Duration: 2-Hour (1-to-1) / Half-Day (Group)

• Project Selection Surgery: Evaluating potential workplace projects to identify a subject with genuine technical complexity, individual accountability, and robust dilemmas.

• Structuring the 3,000 Words: Formatting the submission according to RICS guidelines: project overview, personal role, core challenges, and measurable outcomes.

• Framing Public Sector Dilemmas: Isolating and articulating genuine dilemmas involving conflicting public interests, political sensitivities, or statutory constraints.

• Critical Analysis vs. Description: Moving away from a chronological diary of what happened and demonstrating why you gave specific advice and how you weighed alternative options.

• Writing the Reflections Section: Drafting honest, analytical "lessons learned" and identifying what you would do differently, which panels scrutinise closely during the interview.

• Avoiding Automatic Disqualification Pitfalls: Ensuring full compliance with client confidentiality, committee reporting rules, redaction standards, and word-count caps.

  Duration: 2-Hours (1-to-1) / Half-Day (Group)

• Deconstructing the 10-Minute Limit: Understanding the panel’s evaluation criteria, timing expectations, and how the presentation sets the tone for the entire interview.

• Condensing the Case Study: How to extract the core narrative, critical project dilemmas, and personal contributions from a 3,000-word submission into an engaging verbal story.

• Slide Design & Visual Precision: Formatting clean, professional slides that guide the panel without clutter, technical jargon, or becoming a reading script.

• Communicating Public Sector Context: Presenting public sector complexities—political committees, statutory duties, and community impact—concisely without getting bogged down in background administrative details.

• Pacing, Delivery & Nerves: Practical vocal techniques to manage timing, command the room, maintain professional body language, and speak with confidence under pressure.

• Anticipating the Opening Questions: Mapping out the immediate lines of questioning panels typically pursue based directly on your presentation slides.

  Duration: 2 Hours (1-to-1) / Half-Day (Group)

• Core Standards & Mandatories: A thorough breakdown of the RICS Rules of Conduct and the five Global Professional and Ethical Standards, framed around the public interest and governance.

• The High-Stakes Triggers: Deep dives into the scenarios that lead to automatic referrals—handling gifts and hospitality, identifying and managing conflicts of interest, whistleblowing, anti-bribery, and public procurement integrity.

• Unearthing Everyday Work Examples: How to look at routine casework—such as committee approvals, Section 123 disposals, contractor selection, or managing political and community sensitivities—and identify the subtle ethical judgments needed for your written submissions.

• Writing for the Assessment: How to draft mandatory competency statements that demonstrate proactive ethical leadership and reasoned advice, rather than just ticking a compliance box.

• Anatomy of Assessor Questioning: An analysis of why the interview wraps up with ethics, how panels evaluate your answers, and what benchmark separates an acceptable answer from an immediate referral.

• Drilling Classic Assessor Favorites: Step-by-step frameworks to handle the classic questions panels love to ask.

• Live Scenario Practice: Testing your real-time responses against sudden curveballs, ethical traps, and grey-area dilemmas so you can articulate clear, principled decisions under pressure.

  Duration: 2 Hours (1-to-1) / Half-Day (Group)

• The 60 Minutes Unpacked: A minute-by-minute breakdown of the final assessment interview, from candidate setup and presentation through core questioning to final ethics checks.

• Inside the Assessor Mindset: How panels use the competency matrix, balance chair versus panel responsibilities, and determine borderlines between a pass and a referral.

• Deconstructing Referral Triggers: Examining the most common candidate mistakes—lack of depth in mandatory areas, weak ethics responses, failing to defend the case study, or over-reliance on team achievements.

• Defending Your Submission: Preparing your notes, annotating your uploaded documents, and predicting exactly which phrases in your paperwork will attract scrutiny.

• The Final Four-Week Revision Plan: Building a structured revision schedule covering pathway guides, standard guidance notes, recent statutory updates, and industry news.

• Readiness & Interview Day Logistics: Setting up your environment for virtual interviews, managing adrenaline, and closing your interview on a clear, professional note.

  Duration: 2-Hours

Aimed at candidates in the final 12-months of the APC. The Complete APC Accelerator includes the following courses and workshops:

• The Competency Writing Clinic

• The Case Study Clinic

• The 10-Minute Presentation Workshop

• The Final Assessment - What to Expect & How to Prepare

  Duration: Modular or Multi-Day