Meetings take place in every organization almost every day. How each organization plans, executes and follows up on its meetings ultimately helps decide the effectiveness of the group. When organizations run meetings, understanding obstacles such as the seven deadly meeting sins can help leaders and meeting planners work around potential problems and focus on creating a positive meeting atmosphere. Focusing on number four of the seven deadly meeting sins, nothing happens after the meeting is over, can greatly improve the positive momentum of most meetings. Although meetings can face many obstacles, with focus and action, leaders can overcome obstacles by ensuring action is taken. Leaders and meeting facilitators can ensure action is taken by understanding and following four simple steps. When groups work together often, team members may not be as engaged when given an overall team goal. It is important to assign specific tasks to specific people so that they have a higher level of responsibility and a greater sense of responsibility to complete the task assigned to them (Barrett, 2011). I recently encountered this situation during a sales meeting within our channel. Our sales team of 25 people had the objective of 250 distribution points for a new product that we had just rolled out. In the past, we were briefed on the channel's goal and in doing our part to help achieve the best results, this often ended with team members not performing as expected and stating that they were doing their best to contribute to the goal. Learning from the vagueness of assigned tasks, leaders began not informing the team of the overall goal, but rather assigning and tracking individual goals that added to the overall channel goal, i.e. i.e...... middle of paper ...... make sure all information is clear. I immediately save and add these appointments to my calendar because they have saved me many times. This method is appropriate for our business, but I could see how other businesses might want to send their follow-up using an email or memo. In all cases, in order to be effective, the communication must be delivered within a reasonable time. , covering all the bases to ensure all meetings lead to action can be pretty basic if a few simple steps are followed. Although most meetings have one or two flaws, the focus should be on ensuring that topics covered are understood, remembered, and tasks are completed. With the proper knowledge and a little practice, meeting planners and leaders can begin to get into the habit of following the four steps, which will lead to better action and more positive results..