Aligning training to meet strategic business goals is a key driver for private organizations and it is increasingly so for the public sector as well. This issue of The Public Manager details a transformational effort at the National Park Service that won The Graduate School's Edwards Deming Award. Other best practice articles that highlight the value of aligning training with priority outcomes include features on improving business analysis through integrated learning in the New York State Office of the State Comptroller, and scenario-based training that improves state trooper performance in New Jersey.

Change in the public sector workplace, and how to manage that change, are also discussed in this issue of the journal. Topics include: strengthening civic skills; budgeting federal labor costs; the government workplace of the future; service learning through colleges and universities; bridging the skills gap; and how executive coaching is boosting leadership development in the federal government.

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The Public Manager offers readers practical solutions for emerging public administration and policy issues from experienced professionals. A forum for developing and disseminating best practices, it encourages continuing excellence in government and nonprofit organizations. The Public Manager is published by The Bureaucrat, Inc., an affiliate of the American Society for Training & Development (ASTD), the world's largest association dedicated to the training and development field whose members work in thousands of organizations in the public and private sectors.