Quick Question - Estimating Levered Returns

Is there a quick way to estimate levered returns when you have the unlevered returns, WITHOUT doing the modeling?

I have seen senior people do it in meetings to check things and as a gut check... 

For example, lets say unlevered returns are around 11% or so...

Thanks in advance! 

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