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Use the “Cleaning Up the Slate” questions in the sidebar when you
want to repair a relationship and ensure that all past issues are resolved.
Use this as a guide in a conversation with committed partners and listen
for positive intention as they give you feedback.

Cleaning Up the Slate
Building Trust and Standing for the Success of Each Other
• Have I let you down or disappointed you? How have I impacted
you?
• Have I damaged our trust? What can I do to restore your trust?
• What do I need to clean up? Where do I need to take account-
ability for my impact?

Listening Against and Making Assumptions and Judgments
• Do you feel that I listen against you?
• Do you feel that I judge you and make assumptions?
• What do I need to clean up? How can I take accountability?

Withholding Emotional Commitment
• Do you feel that I talk straight?
• Do you feel that I withhold my commitment and support?
• Do you feel as if I am talking straight with you right now?
What do I need to correct?
• What do I need to clean up?
Conspiring Against
• Do you feel that I have conspired against you or undermined
you in any way? What do I need to clean up?
• Have we conspired against each other? How has this impacted
others?
• What do we need to clean up with each other? Whom do we
need to include in our clean up to end our conspiring against
each other?
Holding Each Other to Account
• Are we willing to hold each other accountable for our committed
partnership agreements?
• Is there anything else we need to clean up?