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title: "Are you MANAGING or COACHING?"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/d4ce8cea-401b-464d-a208-ef25aeeee5ac
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/are-you-managing-or-coaching-2716588
category: "General"
published: 2021-09-07T15:10:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:13:09.905Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/9c49241b095dcb075f612fea458ced134304.jpg
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# Are you MANAGING or COACHING?

**TL;DR:** Excellent managers are great coaches, and the terms manager, coach, and leader are often used interchangeably but have different roles.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-09-07. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/are-you-managing-or-coaching-2716588).*

## Story

So, you want to become a better manager? What separates normal managers from excellent ones is the fact that the latter are great coaches!

There’s a lot of talk about coaching and leadership these days. But you’ll find just as much talk about managers too.

So much so in fact, that many now use these terms – coaches, leaders and managers – interchangeably.

These roles are vitally important in terms of running successful restaurants (or any business), and they are inextricably linked, yet still markedly different.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- leadership (topic)
- management style (topic)
- coaching (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/are-you-managing-or-coaching-2716588). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/d4ce8cea-401b-464d-a208-ef25aeeee5ac).