In this Talent Angle podcast, collaboration expert Rob Cross shares ways employees can become more efficient collaborators and reclaim and reinvest their time. Cross explains how small stressors throughout the work day are  increasing, overwhelming and exhausting employees and lays out practical advice for addressing these issues.

Rob Cross has studied the underlying network dynamics of effective organizations and the collaborative practices of high performers for more than 20 years. He is the Edward A. Madden Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College and the co-founder and director of the Connected Commons, a consortium of over 100 leading organizations accelerating network research and practice. Cross is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, and earned an MBA from UVA’s Darden School and completed doctoral work at Boston University.